[GNC] Capital losses in Advanced Portfolio Report

[David T.]

Jose,

That is likely an error. It is interesting to see that none of the examples has the loss going into an expense account.

Thanks for pointing this out.

David

> On Oct 21, 2018, at 9:28 PM, José A. Fernández Troncoso <jstroncoso at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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