Lam 

I have reported the bug. 

TIA for your help. 
Alain 






De: "Christopher Lam" <christopher....@gmail.com> 
À: cag...@free.fr 
Cc: "gnucash-user" <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> 
Envoyé: Mercredi 4 Avril 2018 20:41:37 
Objet: Re: Unrealized loss 

Hi Alain, please report bug and we can track discussion there. 

On Wed, 4 Apr 2018, 20:12 < [ mailto:cag...@free.fr | cag...@free.fr ] > wrote: 


I suspect there is a bug that should be reported: 

As I do NOT manage currencies other than EUR and no traders accounts taking 
into account share values, I have deleted all exchanges rates that had been 
updated automatically by GC without my noticing. 
BUT my Unrealized loss on a given day varies according to my setting the 
calculation mode to "average" or "nearest in time" for instance. It doesn's 
seem to make sense since there are NO exchange rates in my system. 

Ideas? 
TIA 
Alain 




De: "sunfish62" < [ mailto:sunfis...@yahoo.com | sunfis...@yahoo.com ] > 
À: [ mailto:cag...@free.fr | cag...@free.fr ] , "John Ralls" < [ 
mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us | jra...@ceridwen.us ] > 
Cc: "gnucash-user" < [ mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org | 
gnucash-user@gnucash.org ] > 
Envoyé: Lundi 2 Avril 2018 14:52:46 
Objet: Re: Unrealized loss 

Alain, 

Your new transaction is balanced, and won't affect the imbalance in another 
transaction. 

I personally find the unrealized gains issue to be exceedingly difficult to 
understand. Since you say you don't care about this, just ignore it. 

David T 




On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 17:02, [ mailto:cag...@free.fr | cag...@free.fr ] 
< [ mailto:cag...@free.fr | cag...@free.fr ] > wrote: 



De: [ mailto: [ mailto:cag...@free.fr | cag...@free.fr ] | [ 
mailto:cag...@free.fr | cag...@free.fr ] ] 
À: "John Ralls" < [ mailto: [ mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us | jra...@ceridwen.us ] 
| [ mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us | jra...@ceridwen.us ] ] > 
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Envoyé: Lundi 2 Avril 2018 13:51:03 
Objet: Re: Unrealized loss 




De: "John Ralls" < [ mailto: [ mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us | jra...@ceridwen.us ] 
| [ mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us | jra...@ceridwen.us ] ] > 
À: [ mailto: [ mailto:cag...@free.fr | cag...@free.fr ] | [ 
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Cc: "gnucash-user" < [ mailto: [ mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org | 
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Envoyé: Dimanche 1 Avril 2018 15:34:43 
Objet: Re: Unrealized loss 






On Apr 1, 2018, at 5:13 AM, [ mailto: [ mailto: [ mailto:cag...@free.fr | 
cag...@free.fr ] | [ mailto:cag...@free.fr | cag...@free.fr ] ] | [ mailto: [ 
mailto:cag...@free.fr | cag...@free.fr ] | [ mailto:cag...@free.fr | 
cag...@free.fr ] ] ] wrote: 


Hello. 

I have have had an "unrealized loss" showing on my balance sheet for years. I 
haven't bothered too much as the amount is extremely small. (€7.70). 

I had kind advice on this forum as to identify the date on which the loss 
showed up and the procedure to cancel it. I did find the date but stangely not 
the transaction. So I'm not going to keep trying to cancel the loss any longer. 

I read that, without actually "cancelling" the loss, it is possible to prevent 
it from showing. I know that this is not legal for a company, but my book 
keeping is fully personal so I'd like to know the procedure. 




“Cancelling” isn’t really the right term. You need to record the loss as either 
expense or negative income depending on how you handle capital gains. There’s 
an explanation of how to do this in [ [ [ 
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/invest-sell1.html | 
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/invest-sell1.html ] | [ 
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/invest-sell1.html | 
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/invest-sell1.html ] ] | [ [ 
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/invest-sell1.html | 
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/invest-sell1.html ] | [ 
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/invest-sell1.html | 
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/invest-sell1.html ] ] ] . 

Regards, 
John Ralls 



I have identified the day on which the unrealized lossed first appeared. I have 
drawn a transaction report for that day (and the day before). There is no 
transaction that can remotely explain the loss. 
I do not handle foreign currencies. Regarding shares I do not use trader 
accounts or split transactions including profits or losses. I do not enter 
share values into GC until the day I sell them. There is no way in the meantime 
GC can take into account a difference in value. 

Something might help identify where the problem comes from: I had another 
instance with an unrealized loss as big as my total yearly income. It went away 
a few weeks (or months I'm not sure) after it showed up. There is no way a 
single transaction (or even a few ) on a particular day triggered an unrealized 
loss as big as my yearly income. 

What I would like at this stage is simply set GC NOT to SHOW unrealized 
losses/gains. No legal problem as I'm only managing my personal familyaccounts. 

TIA for you help 
Regards 
Alain 


I tried the following: 
C an equity account "Unrealized loss" : EUR 7.70 
D an income account "Realized loss" : EUR 7.70 
The total Equity remained the same - 7.70 
I changed the signs and the total equity remained at - 7.70 
I don't get it. 

TIA 
Alain 




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