[GNC] Automatic capital gains question

[Jon Schewe]

On Mon, 2024-10-07 at 22:30 -0400, NoobAlice wrote:
> On 2024-10-07 09:52 PM, Jon Schewe wrote:
> > In my case there are no transaction fees, those are handled
> > separately
> > though a cash account. However that wouldn't explain why the
> > numbers
> > don't add up. Shouldn't GnuCash put the trades into lots and if
> > I've
> > sold off all of my shares shouldn't all of the buys minus the sells
> > give me my capital gains? I'm trying what I feel like is a pretty
> > simple account to understand how the automatic lots work. If it
> > can't
> > get that right, I can't trust it to get the gains right when I
> > don't
> > sell off all of the shares.
> > Again, what am I missing in my understanding of how GnuCash does
> > things
> > that would explain why the numbers don't add up?
> 
> 
> My guess is that your basis may be off.  Does your cost basis in
> GnuCash 
> actually match the cost basis your brokerage has?  If not, can you 
> pinpoint the differences?  I am assuming that you already checked
> that 
> the number of shares matches.
> 
I'm not comparing the numbers against my brokerage statement. I'm
comparing GnuCash with itself. To me this seems like really simple
math.
I've attached a screenshot below. 
All of the buys add up to be $11,793.02
All of the sells add up to be $11,729.04
Doing the simple math this means that I lost $63.98.

Now look at the bottom of the register where GnuCash computed the
Realized Gain/Loss. I put those all against the same account and that
adds up to a loss of $64.12.
Why the difference? Is this rounding error?



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