[GNC] unrealized gain / losses for mutual funds

[Andrea Borgia]

Hello.


Trying to improve my book-keeping, I would like to tackle this issue now 
so I went to the documentation, precisely "11.4.1. Unrealized Gains".

Problem is, the example applies to a painting, that is an object whose 
value changes, not shares whose number remains constant but whose value 
changes, thus leading to a change in total valuation.


Since the end goal is to derive unrealized P&L and then include those in 
the economic result for the year, I thought I could record a fake sale, 
after all at book opening the next year I do a fake purchase (with same 
price, just one day apart). If this makes sense, how do I compute the 
P&L given the new price? Must I do that manually with a split or is 
there some kind of assistance by GnuCash?


Thanks,

Andrea.