I've tested the report several times under varying use cases and cross-checked against both pen & paper and a spreadsheet, so I'm fairly confident that it's reporting what I want it to report.
David C. suggested saving the register report and I certainly could do that. Honestly, it hadn't occurred to me to save the report. The catch is that this report doesn't currently allow you to select/change the account at runtime, so I would have to create a separate, saved report for each account I wanted to report on. That could get unwieldy as there are some 40 different accounts that need reported on (multiple commodities across a range of accounts: retirement, college savings, health savings, regular brokerage, etc.) As for your question, "Why?" I want my balance sheet to mirror the cost basis that my 401k provider comes up with. (Before anyone says it, this is for my own performance tracking, not tax reporting). On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 7:56 AM, Wm via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > On 06/03/2018 01:25, Robin Chattopadhyay wrote: > >> Hi- >> >> Using Linux Mint 18.3, Gnucash 2.6.19... >> >> There's a report I like to use called Account Report. You can get to it >> after opening a register. I use this report to see what gnc has as the >> cost >> basis for an investment. >> > > I'm not sure that was how it was meant to be used so it may be that it is > occasional that it is producing the number you expect or want :) > > Because of the way my 401(k) provider calculates cost basis, I have found >> that the only way to properly track realized gains/losses in gnc is to >> manually make the entries myself. So I use this report and set the options >> to Amount = SINGLE and tick the 'Value' option. The net Value Change >> neatly >> reflects my cost basis (assuming there are no filters and all transactions >> in the account are visible). >> > > That sounds good. > > My question is: Can I go somewhere and change the defaults for this report >> so that I don't have to select them every time? For any other report, I >> would save the report to ~/.gnucash/saved-reports-2.4 and just select the >> account I wanted to report on. >> > > I can save a register report on windows, I haven't tried on another OS to > see if it is different there. > > >> But this report doesn't have an option to select the account so my next >> thought was to change the defaults. >> > > Are you, perhaps, trying to make a report do something it wasn't intended > to do ? If so why ? > > Is there anything unusual that you think might be preventing you from > saving it for reuse other than not understanding what is being reported? > > -- > Wm > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > 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 If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
