Christian, You are referring to the "Tutorial and Concepts Guide where it says: "Account for the profit or loss as coming from an Income:Capital Gains or Expenses:Capital Loss account. " (section 9.7.1.1)" I presume, since the preferred method of accounting for capital losses may vary according to local laws and/or user preferences.
Whether the advanced portfolio report design is in error is not necessarily true. David C On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 1:50 PM Christian Kluge <frakturfr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. 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