[GNC] Capital losses in Advanced Portfolio Report

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 2, 2018, at 10:08 AM, Wm via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> On 21/10/2018 11:18, José A. Fernández Troncoso wrote:
>> Yes, when I create a sale transaction on the stock, a capital loss is
>> calculated automatically by the report and shown as a negative amount in
>> the Realized Gain column. That's fine by me.
> 
> It presumes a tax regime, unfortunately.
> 
>> The problem is that when I add a split to record the loss manually on
>> the Expenses:Capital Loss acount, the amount recorded on the stock
>> acount split (in the Total Sell column) is then added to the Income
>> column of the report, as if it were a dividend.
> 
> The general problem is that the report presumes you are merkin and have few external tx
> 
> The other way is to go for Trading Accounts, but that means thinking

It does not presume a tax regime. Booking gains and losses is necessary to balance the accounting equation: Assets increased or decreased and that change needs to be reflected somewhere in Equity via an income or expense split.

Regards,
John Ralls