[GNC] Vested and Un-Vested Stocks

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 4/7/2025 10:12 AM, Murugan Mariappan wrote:
> GNUCash should implement a Contingent GL feature. This shadow ledger 
> would track unrealized items like unvested options and non-performing 
> asset accruals without affecting real book balances.
> Benefits include:


It is NOT "out of scope" because available now. Absolutely nothing 
prevents you from having a second set of books under gnucash to track 
such things. Nothing prevents you from keeping a set of books for a 
virtual entity*

Michael D Novack

(*)  Example, when we installed a solar system, I wanted to CORRECTLY 
track how it paid itself off. Correctly, not ignoring things like the 
time value of money, how it affected other expenses (property insurance, 
taxes, etc,)

      So I created a virtual entity "Solar System", which operated on 
capital borrowed from us at the then current rate for 20 year money. 
This entity was credited with income like utility bills paid, tax 
credits, sales of SRECs, etc. It was charged expenses like interest on 
the BLOC, portion of property insurance premium, income tax on sale of 
SRECs, etc. When it had accumulated "profits" these used to make 
principle payments on th BLOC. When the balance of the BLOC down to 
zero, paid off.  It is now accumulating its repair/replacement fund.