A well defined error is still an error. Am 22.10.2018 um 00:22 schrieb Christopher Lam: > It's hard wired because that's what the report writer wrote, and was > merged into gnucash, as a voluntary contribution. > > It's rather difficult to modify these reports and maintain full > compatibility with everyone who has used them previously and expect the > report output to be predictable. Often the report behaviours are only > discovered by users reporting unusual behavior. > > As discovered here this report expects transfers from STOCK/FUND > accounts to > > * ASSET/LIABILITY for stock/fund purchases/sales > * INCOME for capital gains/losses > * EXPENSE for transactional costs eg brokerage fees > > > This is now well-defined (albeit not well documented yet), works well > within the Gnucash engine. IMHO the report shouldn't be modified. > > On 22/10/18 2:39 am, Christian Kluge wrote: >> Hi, >> >> isn’t this hard wiring and expecting bad style? Could you make in a way, >> to select the both account types for the report? >> >> I’d feel confortable making a debit entry to an income account if it >> isn’t either a contra-income account like rebates or cash discounts or >> as a correction entry on a normal standard income account. >> >> Kind regards >> >> Christian Kluge >> >> Am 21.10.2018 um 16:35 schrieb John Ralls: >>> That’s because the Advanced Portfolio Report is hard-wired to expect >>> capital gains and losses to be posted to an income report with gains >>> as credits and losses as debits. >>> >>> Regards, >>> John Ralls >>> >>> >>>> On Oct 21, 2018, at 3:18 AM, José A. Fernández Troncoso >>>> <jstronc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Yes, when I create a sale transaction on the stock, a capital loss is >>>> calculated automatically by the report and shown as a negative >>>> amount in >>>> the Realized Gain column. That's fine by me. >>>> >>>> The problem is that when I add a split to record the loss manually on >>>> the Expenses:Capital Loss acount, the amount recorded on the stock >>>> acount split (in the Total Sell column) is then added to the Income >>>> column of the report, as if it were a dividend. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Jose >>>> >>>> On Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 10:14:59 PM CEST Richard Ullger wrote: >>>>> On 20/10/2018 17:19, José Antonio Fernández Troncoso wrote: >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> In my advanced porfolio report, capital losses linked to a stock >>>>>> account are added to the Income column as if they were dividends. >>>>>> >>>>>> Could anyone using this report provide some feedback as to whether >>>>>> this also happens to them? Is there a bug in the report or am I >>>>>> doing something wrong? >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm using GnuCash Version: 3.2. Build ID: 3.2+ (2018-06-24). >>>>> I've been using this report for some time and have never seen this >>>>> behaviour. I'm currently using Build ID: git 3.3+ (2018-09-29) >>>>> >>>>> The income column reflects the income that I have recorded against the >>>>> stock. >>>>> >>>>> A capital loss is shown as a negative amount in the Realised Gain >>>>> column. However there appears to be a bug in the amount of Realised >>>>> Gain. The report seems to try to calculate the gain/loss rather than >>>>> report on any gain/loss recorded against the stock. >>>>> >>>>> A loss in the valuation is shown as a negative amount in the >>>>> Unrealised Gain column. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Richard. >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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.
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