[GNC] Advanced Portfolio report of basis

[Fred Tydeman]

If you do the sell/rebuy at the date of each return of capital,
that could mess up long term versus short term capital gains.

On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 2:37 PM Sherlock <sh025622 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Fred,
>
> The approach we use it to enter a transaction selling each lot's shares
> at their current cost basis, purchasing the same number of shares of
> each lot at their new cost basis, and recording the amount of capital
> returned to an income account for the security.  We use a separate
> transaction from the income account for the security to the account that
> receives the return of capital.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sherlock
>
>
> On 5/30/26 7:30 PM, Fred Tydeman wrote:
> > I have a stock that has had a few Return of Capital transactions.
> > They have been recorded as sell of zero shares at zero price for the
> > Return of Capital dollar amount.
> >
> > When I look at the Advanced Portfolio report for that stock,
> > the Basis price is the original purchase amount.  I am expecting that
> > the Basis price to be original purchase amount - (sum of Return of
> Capital).
> >
> > Did I record Return of Capital wrong?
> > Is there a bug in the Advanced Portfolio?
> >
> > Is there a better way to find the basis of a stock?
> >
> > GnuCash 5.14 on Fedora Linux 44
>
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