[GNC] Capital losses in Advanced Portfolio Report

[José A. Fernández Troncoso]

Thank you, John and David:

Using an income acount to record the loss solves the issue.

I'm afraid I was misled by the Tutorial and Concepts Guide where it 
says: "Account for the profit or loss as coming from an Income:Capital 
Gains or Expenses:Capital Loss account. " (section 9.7.1.1).

Regards,
Jose

On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 5:20:51 PM CEST David T. wrote:
> 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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