OK thank you. Sorry for bad form on my response. On Thu, Feb 27, 2025, 10:39 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
> > > On Feb 27, 2025, at 16:47, David Warren <da...@warren1.net> wrote: > > > > John, > > > > I'm curious what you'd suggest to do to track my issue down. I got rid > of all my stock accounts save one open one (where the price hasn't moved > since inception) and some closed accounts (where all positions were sold). > A standard balance sheet report nevertheless shows a giant "unrealized > trading loss". Yet an advanced portfolio report (as expected, as I have no > extant large unrealized losses) shows nothing of the sort. A trial balance > report DOES show a large imbalance, though, (perhaps of the same amount), > between debits and credits. > > > > How does one track down the account(s) producing this purported > unrealized trading loss. (note that trading accounts are NOT enabled) > > > > David, > > Please start a new email when you want to start a new conversation. It’s > much friendlier to the thread-following in everyone’s’ mail clients and > also makes searching the list archives easier. > > Look at different periods in the trial balance report. Try running one for > 5 years ago. Was there an unrealized gain or loss? If so try 10 years ago; > if not 3 years ago, and so on. If you find that the unrealized gain has > accumulated over time then you’ll need to create post-dated transactions or > correct existing ones to get it to balance as you go. If it’s just one > broken transaction then binary-searching with the dates is the fastest way > to find it. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > _______________________________________________ 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.
