[GNC] Return of Capital

[John Ralls]

Alen,

Yes, I saw that.
IIUC the transaction that you're creating is between IPE and AUD. That will cause trading account splits as they operate between any differing commodity pair, not just between currencies.

I presume that you're working on the transaction in split view. In that view GnuCash's automatic price conversion is turned off so it's to the user to enter values (in the split's commodity) and amounts (in the transaction currency) that balance in the transaction currency. The example doesn't show shares or price columns. If you're trying to create or edit the transaction in a currency account where those aren't shown it can make getting the balance right difficult so try switching to the IPE account to view the transaction. If it's still confusing post the whole transaction showing all 4 columns (i.e. shares, price, debit, and credit) and all splits including the trading account ones.

Aside from that you've overstated your return of capital. Consider the whole cycle (AUD balance reflects the cash account so decreases with debit in the stock account):

Description				Shares	Price		Debit	Credit	Share Bal. 	AUD
Buy ISE 100				100		10		1000				100			-1000
ISE Return of Capital									500					- 500
Sell ISE 100 @ 10			-100		10				1000		0			  500
Buy ISE 100 @ 5				100		  5		500				100			0

The return of capital changes the basis on its own, though I think the Advanced Portfolio Report doesn't understand returns of capital and won't reflect the change in basis. When you get around to really selling the ISE then when you compute the capital gain you'll subtract the return of capital from the original basis.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 18, 2019, at 10:26 PM, cicko <alen.siljak at gmx.com> wrote:
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> John, I've included the answer to your question(s) in the thread continuing
> on Adrien's answer. There may be something wrong with the insertion of the
> adjusting splits. 
> In both cases, you might want to follow up there. Thanks!
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