[GNC] Capital losses in Advanced Portfolio Report

[John Ralls]

That’s because the Advanced Portfolio Report is hard-wired to expect capital gains and losses to be posted to an income report with gains as credits and losses as debits.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Oct 21, 2018, at 3:18 AM, José A. Fernández Troncoso <jstroncoso at gmail.com> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Regards,
> Jose
> 
> On Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 10:14:59 PM CEST Richard Ullger wrote:
>> On 20/10/2018 17:19, José Antonio Fernández Troncoso wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> In my advanced porfolio report, capital losses linked to a stock
>>> account are added to the Income column as if they were dividends.
>>> 
>>> Could anyone using this report provide some feedback as to whether
>>> this also happens to them? Is there a bug in the report or am I
>>> doing something wrong?
>>> 
>>> I'm using GnuCash Version: 3.2. Build ID: 3.2+ (2018-06-24).
>> 
>> I've been using this report for some time and have never seen this
>> behaviour. I'm currently using Build ID: git 3.3+ (2018-09-29)
>> 
>> The income column reflects the income that I have recorded against the
>> stock.
>> 
>> A capital loss is shown as a negative amount in the Realised Gain
>> column. However there appears to be a bug in the amount of Realised
>> Gain. The report seems to try to calculate the gain/loss rather than
>> report on any gain/loss recorded against the stock.
>> 
>> A loss in the valuation is shown as a negative amount in the
>> Unrealised Gain column.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Richard.
>> 
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