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

[David Carlson]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 7:50 AM Chary Chary <chary314 at gmail.com> wrote:

> csingley,
>
> thanks for feedback.  I found the correct report name, which I think I
> want. In finance world it is called "Statement of Comprehensive Income"
>
> https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/comprehensiveincome.asp
>
> ===========================
> . Comprehensive income includes net income and unrealized income, such as
> unrealized gains/losses on hedge/derivative financial instruments and
> foreign currency transaction gains/losses. Comprehensive income provides a
> holistic view of a company's income not fully captured on the income
> statement.
> ============================
>
> But I am not sure I understand the complexity to calculate it in gnucash.
>
> Once just has to walk through all records in the price database (stock and
> currency) and calculate net worth before and after change and log delta as
> a transaction in some virtual account.
>
>
> Regards.
>
>
> While it is probably possible to do that in GnuCash, it is well beyond the
scope of the design of GnuCash.  Particularly generating and tracking all
of the necessary non-cash information in a manner that would satisfy an
auditor who understood what you were doing would be mind-boggling to me.

I doubt that other users here have contemplated stretching GnuCash that
far, and while several of us can help telling you details here and there
about how parts of GnuCash work 'under the hood', you will have to do your
own spadework to craft questions to ask us.

That said, GnuCash is very versatile and many users have figured out ways
to stretch it to do amazing things.

Good luck with your ambitions.
-- 
David Carlson