[GNC] Realized and unrealized gains added together on balance sheet.

[Wm Tarr]

On 2026-06-29 02:26, Robert Johnson wrote:
> Thank you for your suggestion. I indeed did that.  Deleted the stock 
> transaction and started again with the stock assistant.  The advanced 
> portfolio report is now making sense.  The unrealized gains are now 
> correct. 


That's the bit that counts in terms of getting the transactions right.


>  However, t balance sheet is still combining the capital gain 
> (realized gain) with the unrealized gains seen on the advanced 
> portfolio report.  Maybe there is some accounting principle that I 
> don’t understand.  I would expect that the unrealized gains in the 
> balance sheet would mirror the same in the advanced portfolio report. 
> The capital gain is indeed properly reported as income in the income 
> (profit and lose) statement.
>
The unrealised gain is in the investment value on the BS, the realised 
gain is in a bank a/c or similar, the amount that balances it all up is 
in equity.  Try running a multi-column balance sheet so you can see a 
before and after side by side, it may help to clear things up.

Wm