GNUCash should implement a Contingent GL feature. This shadow ledger would track unrealized items like unvested options and non-performing asset accruals without affecting real book balances. Benefits include:
* Modeling future financials. * Improved forecasting and analysis. * Clear separation from realized transactions. * Enhanced internal control over potential items. A Contingent GL offers accountants better control and a comprehensive view, improving financial management in GNUCash for complex scenarios. Saludos Cordiales Murugan ________________________________ From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+m.muruganandam=hotmail....@gnucash.org> on behalf of Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Sent: 06 April 2025 21:29 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: [GNC] Vested and Un-Vested Stocks OK, the USUAL situation with things like this that a conditional liability is involved. You got something NOW but would be required to give it back under certain conditions. In other words, this asset comes with a conditional liability. ONE way is to enter a "journal transaction" when received, debiting equity and crediting the liability. Then each time vesting occurs, another journal transaction debiting that liability and crediting equity for the amount that became vested. You could handle "split dollar" insurance the same way, and here having a clear picture of the liability could be very useful as there are options* Michael D Novack * At termination, you get to choose. Surrender the policy keeping the difference between cash value and the premiums owed OR buy the policy by paying the premiums owed. That latter could be a good deal if your health very poor at that time. On 4/6/2025 6:20 PM, flywire wrote: > Let's kick this off... > > Say you have an Assets:Brokerage Account:Stock:AMZN account from ( > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide/invest-setup1.html#invest-setup-example2 > ). Maybe use an Assets:Unvested:Stock:AMZN account and transfer them when > they vest. Unvested stock may never vest so they are not really worth > anything in the Balance Sheet. The value is either zero or vested value * > vesting risk (depending on the purpose of your books). If they are given a > non-zero value the account could be excluded from the Balance Sheet. > > Updating share (stock) value manually at the end of each financial year > works well for me. > > Regards > _______________________________________________ > 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. -- There is no possibility of social justice on a dead planet except the equality of the grave. _______________________________________________ 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.
