[GNC] Capital losses in Advanced Portfolio Report

Christian Kluge frakturfreak at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 14:47:28 EDT 2018


A well defined error is still an error.

Am 22.10.2018 um 00:22 schrieb 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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