That looks like a proper cap gains transaction. It's odd that the share balance differs by 250 between the two screenshots: Is there some other transaction that might be affecting things?
The next thought is that there might be a non-AUD transaction currency involved. If you open the transaction in the CapitalLosses:CurrentYear:Realized account register, right-click on the split for that account, and select "Edit Exchange Rate" does it open the transfer dialog or pop an error box? If the former, what is the non-AUD currency/commodity it wants to price; if the latter, what's the error? Regards, John Ralls > On Oct 5, 2022, at 7:33 PM, Chris Grinton <cgrin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Good thought - but the problem still occurs even if the share count and > price are non-0. (The example transaction I've described is a simple > reduction in the cost base of the asset without changing the number of > shares held. But I think that is not directly relevant to the problem and > probably the example I described more complex than it needed to be.) > > Chris > > > On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 at 09:45, R Losey <rlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Perhaps I'm missing something, but if there is a transaction that has a >> cost of 5000, and you have shares with a price of 0, that may be causing it >> to think there is an imbalance, and thus the transactions get added? >> >> On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 7:09 AM Chris Grinton <cgrin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi GnuCashers, >>> >>> I have a strange situation where a transaction is automagically (and >>> unexpectedly) getting splits added to it against the "Orphan-<currency>" >>> and "Imbalance-<currency>" accounts when my GnuCash data file is closed >>> and >>> reopened. I can't work out why these splits are getting added, and would >>> love any insights that people might have on how to stop it from happening. >>> >>> The unexpected behavior here appears to be somehow related to having >>> trading accounts enabled, and a consequence of changing the namespace of a >>> security. >>> >>> Here are steps I do to reproduce this problem: >>> >>> 1. Create a transaction as follows: >>> Expenses:Realised capital losses DR 5000 >>> Assets:Stock account CR >>> 5000 (with shares & price = 0) >>> >>> This appears in GnuCash as per the following screenshot: >>> >>> [image: image.png] >>> >>> No change occurs to this transaction as long as I keep the GnuCash file >>> open. >>> >>> 2. Edit the UNLISTED:ACME security, and change its namespace. For example, >>> change the namespace from "UNLISTED" to "UNLISTED2". >>> >>> 3. Open a different GnuCash file (or close GnuCash), and then open the >>> original file again. The act of opening the file appears to cause the >>> transaction to be updated with additional splits to read as follows: >>> >>> Expenses:Realised capital losses DR 5000 >>> * Orphan-AUD DR 5000* >>> Assets:Stock account CR >>> 5000 (with shares & price = 0) >>> * Imbalance-AUD CR >>> 5000* >>> >>> Here's a screenshot showing this: >>> [image: image.png] >>> >>> 4. If I delete the Orphan & Imbalance splits, they continue to reappear >>> every time I reopen the GnuCash file. >>> >>> I have not seen this behavior occurring for securities that have not had a >>> namespace change, but is reliably reproducible for securities that have >>> had >>> a namespace change. >>> >>> I'm using GnuCash 4.8 on Windows with a SQLite data file. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Chris >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> ----- >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >>> >> >> >> -- >> _________________________________ >> Richard Losey >> rlo...@gmail.com >> Micah 6:8 >> > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
