That is a clever trick. You could create a separate report for each security, but I suspect that could easily get out of hand. Perhaps someone else has a better suggestion, or perhaps the report could be re-configured to allow selecting the source account.
David C On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:25 PM, Robin Chattopadhyay <robinra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi- > > Using Linux Mint 18.3, Gnucash 2.6.19... > > There's a report I like to use called Account Report. You can get to it > after opening a register. I use this report to see what gnc has as the cost > basis for an investment. > > Because of the way my 401(k) provider calculates cost basis, I have found > that the only way to properly track realized gains/losses in gnc is to > manually make the entries myself. So I use this report and set the options > to Amount = SINGLE and tick the 'Value' option. The net Value Change neatly > reflects my cost basis (assuming there are no filters and all transactions > in the account are visible). > > My question is: Can I go somewhere and change the defaults for this report > so that I don't have to select them every time? For any other report, I > would save the report to ~/.gnucash/saved-reports-2.4 and just select the > account I wanted to report on. > > But this report doesn't have an option to select the account so my next > thought was to change the defaults. > > Thanks, > Robin > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
