[GNC] Capital losses in Advanced Portfolio Report

[David T.]

Jose,

Just to be clear, I believe John is pointing out that your capital losses should be recorded in an Income account, rather than an Expense account.

David

> On Oct 21, 2018, at 8:05 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> 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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