[GNC] unrealized gain / losses for mutual funds

[Andrea Borgia]

Any ideas? Was my question perhaps not sufficiently clear?

Il giorno dom 15 mag 2022 alle ore 17:15 Andrea Borgia <andrea at borgia.bo.it>
ha scritto:

> Hello.
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> 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".
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Thanks,
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> Andrea.
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