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

[csingley]

Setting aside my umbrage at GAAP-related gaslighting... Chary Chary, I think
what you're looking for is a custom report.  I believe GnuCash already
captures all the necessary data, it just doesn't treat unrealized as a
first-class citizen.

But for your purposes as I understand them, GAAP financial statements are
really a bit of a red herring.  You can do a lot better than GAAP compliance
for investment performance reporting!

Sadly, I lack the ability to knock up custom reports in Scheme that would
help fill this gap.  I'd be game to help anybody that does, though.  I'm
pretty familiar with the relevant calculations and their application to
performance reporting (this isn't really very difficult).


David Carlson-4 wrote
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 7:50 AM Chary Chary <

> chary314@

> > 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
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