[GNC] Cashflow-like report to show realized and unrealized gains / balance sheet delta report

[David Carlson]

Welcome to the GnuCash user community!

A caveat:  GnuCash reports sometimes give erroneous values when there is
more than one currency in the book  and when there are securities included
in the assets.  There is no simple way to say certain settings will give
accurate results for all cases.  However, seasoned users have found
settings that work for their particular circumstances.  To make matters
more interesting, Release 3.4, the current release, differs from older
releases  as some, but not all of the issues have been addressed.

Other users here can help with specific issues when you get to them.  One
of the gray areas that you hint that you will face is unrealized gains.
You will need to customize your reports somewhat to use 'Nearest in Time"
valuations and to verify that you have values in your price database for
the dates used in your reports.

Good Luck.

David Carlson

On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 6:42 PM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:

> You are describing an "Income Statement" aka "Profit/Loss Statement".
> This is available from the reports menu.
>
> On 2/24/19 4:02 PM, Chary Chary wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I just started learning gnucash with the goal to depart from my from my
> > Excel-based bookkeeping system with pivot tables, so forgive me if I ask
> > stupid question. i think I read pretty much all of the help file, but
> still
> > didn't understand whether the following is possible:
> >
> > I am just wondering  whether there is a cashflow-like report which shows
> > also realized and unrealized gains for certain period
> >
> > What exactly I mean by this:
> >
> > Say at the beginning of the year I have produced a Balance Sheet report.
> > This report shows how much assets I have, which liabilities and delta
> > between them. Suppose at begging of the year I had checking accounts in
> USD
> > and Euro and some stock.
> > Throughout the year I was getting salary, paying expenses, at the same
> time
> > exchange rate was changing, stock price was changing etc. My be I sold
> some
> > stock, moved money between USD and Euro accounts
> >
> > Now at the end of the year I have produced a new balance sheet.
> >
> > So, I want to be able to explain a delta between a balance sheet at the
> > beginning of the ear and at the end.
> >
> > E.g.:
> >
> > I got so much salary
> > I paid so much costs
> >
> > But also:
> > Lost so much due to exchange rate change
> > Gained to much due to stock price increase etc.
> >
> > So, effectively I need to be able to drill down in the delta in Balance
> > Sheet report
> >
> > Regards.
> > Chary
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