[GNC] Advanced Portfolio report of basis

[Sherlock]

We track the acquisition date separately as Gnucash only tracks 
transaction dates.

On 5/31/26 1:32 AM, Fred Tydeman wrote:
> 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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