So I see. Even though I carefully put them at the end.

 Fortunately Chris should have gotten a direct copy without Mailman’s 
interference.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Aug 13, 2018, at 8:33 AM, Adrien Monteleone 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> Mailman was hungry. It ate your screenshots.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
>>>>>> 
>> 
>> Chris,
>> 
>> To demonstrate the price difference on assets creating an “Unrealized Gain” 
>> line, I created a fake account with Trading Accounts off and purchased on 1 
>> January 100 shares of a stock for $100, then created a new price for the 
>> stock of $200. The resulting Balance Sheet report is the first screenshot 
>> below. Price source is set to “nearest in time”.
>> 
>> I repeated the process in a new book with trading accounts enabled and got 
>> the second screenshot. As you pointed out, the “Unrealized Gains” line 
>> changes to “Trading Gains”. Selling the stock made no difference on the 
>> report unless I also booked the 10,000 gain to Income:Short Term Cap Gains, 
>> after which the calculated line became “Retained Earnings” as illustrated by 
>> the third screen shot.
>> 
>> I went back and did the sale on the non-trading-accounts book and found that 
>> indeed “Unrealized Gains” didn’t change after I sold the stock; that’s 
>> wrong, it’s a realized gain at that point. Booking the gain to Income 
>> changed the line to “Retained Earnings” as it did with trading accounts 
>> enabled and as expected.
>> 
>> Finally, to illustrate the effect of price source I removed the sell 
>> transaction and changed the price source in report options to “Avg Cost”. 
>> The result is the last screenshot, showing the stock at book value and the 
>> “Unrealized Gains” line at 0.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
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