Jose, That is likely an error. It is interesting to see that none of the examples has the loss going into an expense account.
Thanks for pointing this out. David > On Oct 21, 2018, at 9:28 PM, José A. Fernández Troncoso > <jstronc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you, John and David: > > Using an income acount to record the loss solves the issue. > > I'm afraid I was misled by the Tutorial and Concepts Guide where it > says: "Account for the profit or loss as coming from an Income:Capital > Gains or Expenses:Capital Loss account. " (section 9.7.1.1). > > Regards, > Jose > > On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 5:20:51 PM CEST David T. wrote: >> Jose, >> >> Just to be clear, I believe John is pointing out that your capital >> losses should be recorded in an Income account, rather than an >> Expense account. >> >> David >> >>> On Oct 21, 2018, at 8:05 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >>> >>> That’s because the Advanced Portfolio Report is hard-wired to expect >>> capital gains and losses to be posted to an income report with >>> gains as credits and losses as debits. >>> >>> Regards, >>> John Ralls >>> >>>> On Oct 21, 2018, at 3:18 AM, José A. Fernández Troncoso >>>> <jstronc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Yes, when I create a sale transaction on the stock, a capital loss >>>> is >>>> calculated automatically by the report and shown as a negative >>>> amount in the Realized Gain column. That's fine by me. >>>> >>>> The problem is that when I add a split to record the loss manually >>>> on >>>> the Expenses:Capital Loss acount, the amount recorded on the stock >>>> acount split (in the Total Sell column) is then added to the Income >>>> column of the report, as if it were a dividend. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Jose >>>> >>>> On Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 10:14:59 PM CEST Richard Ullger > wrote: >>>>> On 20/10/2018 17:19, José Antonio Fernández Troncoso wrote: >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> In my advanced porfolio report, capital losses linked to a stock >>>>>> account are added to the Income column as if they were dividends. >>>>>> >>>>>> Could anyone using this report provide some feedback as to >>>>>> whether >>>>>> this also happens to them? Is there a bug in the report or am I >>>>>> doing something wrong? >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm using GnuCash Version: 3.2. Build ID: 3.2+ (2018-06-24). >>>>> >>>>> I've been using this report for some time and have never seen this >>>>> behaviour. I'm currently using Build ID: git 3.3+ (2018-09-29) >>>>> >>>>> The income column reflects the income that I have recorded against >>>>> the stock. >>>>> >>>>> A capital loss is shown as a negative amount in the Realised Gain >>>>> column. However there appears to be a bug in the amount of >>>>> Realised >>>>> Gain. The report seems to try to calculate the gain/loss rather >>>>> than >>>>> report on any gain/loss recorded against the stock. >>>>> >>>>> A loss in the valuation is shown as a negative amount in the >>>>> Unrealised Gain column. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Richard. >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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. _______________________________________________ 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. 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