Hi, I've now tried to search for this for quite a bit but somehow I'm not finding the right stuff or maybe not understanding it right and I hope someone can help me.
I would like to separate the currency gains from other income and would like to also differentiate between realized and unrealized gain. Let's take the following example 2017-06-01 * "Buy USD" Assets:CHF -30 CHF Assets:USD 20 USD @ 1.5 CHF 2017-07-01 price USD 1.7 CHF 2017-08-01 * "Sell USD" Assets:USD -20 USD @ 2 CHF Assets:CHF 40 CHF - On 2017-07-01 I would have an unrealized currency gain of 4 CHF, how would I see this? - On 2017-08-02 I would have a realized currency gain of 10 CHF, how would I set this up to see this as income? One thing I found was http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html Which looked quite interesting to me and seems to have a solution for this but I'm struggling with implementing some of the details of it. I think in my case the concept of "adjusted cost base" seems to be the simplest and make sense. So if I understood that correct I would need to do the following: 2017-06-01 * Assets:CHF -30 CHF Income:USDTrading 30 CHF Income:USDTrading -20 USD Assets:USD 20 USD 2017-07-01 price BTC 0.30 CHF 2017-08-01 * Assets:USD -20 USD Income:USDTrading 20 USD Income:USDTrading -30 CHF Income:USDTradingRealized -10 CHF Assets:CHF 40 CHF What I get out of this - If I take the balance of Income:USDTradingRealized with the current exchange rate this should reflect my unrealized gain A couple of things that confuse me - This feels somehow "wrong" as I'm no longer using the @ price annotation and have this price implicit in the difference between the amounts in one currency going into the USDTrading and and out of the USDTrading in the other currency. - I need to manually calculate the -10 CHF realized gain - Income:USDTradingRealized could actually be an income or an expense, depending on current exchange rates Can anyone help me with this or point me in the right direction? Thanks and Regards, Patrick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/397c15c6-c5ea-4d9c-917f-60adf03344d4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
