[GNC] Capital losses in Advanced Portfolio Report

[Christopher Lam]

It's hard wired because that's what the report writer wrote, and was 
merged into gnucash, as a voluntary contribution.

It's rather difficult to modify these reports and maintain full 
compatibility with everyone who has used them previously and expect the 
report output to be predictable. Often the report behaviours are only 
discovered by users reporting unusual behavior.

As discovered here this report expects transfers from STOCK/FUND accounts to

  * ASSET/LIABILITY for stock/fund purchases/sales
  * INCOME for capital gains/losses
  * EXPENSE for transactional costs eg brokerage fees


This is now well-defined (albeit not well documented yet), works well 
within the Gnucash engine. IMHO the report shouldn't be modified.

On 22/10/18 2:39 am, Christian Kluge wrote:
> Hi,
>
> isn’t this hard wiring and expecting bad style? Could you make in a way,
> to select the both account types for the report?
>
> I’d feel confortable making a debit entry to an income account if it
> isn’t either a contra-income account like rebates or cash discounts or
> as a correction entry on a normal standard income account.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Christian Kluge
>
> Am 21.10.2018 um 16:35 schrieb 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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