Andrea, Perhaps your question is not clear if it wasn't answered by several replies hinting that accountants treat various types of assets differently. I am not an accountant, so I cannot know how well GnuCash treats the various types, but I would expect it to work reasonably well when currencies and publicly traded securities are tracked.
GnuCash generally does not work very well tracking unrealized gains, as you have noted. The documentation doesn't either. If the documentation were improved to describe how GnuCash actually does work with other asset types than art objects, such as currencies and securities that are publically traded on Wall Street or the Chicago Board of Trade, I would consider that a major step forward. On Wed, May 18, 2022, 1:33 AM Andrea Borgia <and...@borgia.bo.it> wrote: > Any ideas? Was my question perhaps not sufficiently clear? > > Il giorno dom 15 mag 2022 alle ore 17:15 Andrea Borgia < > and...@borgia.bo.it> > ha scritto: > > > Hello. > > > > > > Trying to improve my book-keeping, I would like to tackle this issue now > > so I went to the documentation, precisely "11.4.1. Unrealized Gains". > > > > Problem is, the example applies to a painting, that is an object whose > > value changes, not shares whose number remains constant but whose value > > changes, thus leading to a change in total valuation. > > > > > > Since the end goal is to derive unrealized P&L and then include those in > > the economic result for the year, I thought I could record a fake sale, > > after all at book opening the next year I do a fake purchase (with same > > price, just one day apart). If this makes sense, how do I compute the > > P&L given the new price? Must I do that manually with a split or is > > there some kind of assistance by GnuCash? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andrea. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
