> On Nov 2, 2018, at 10:08 AM, Wm via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > wrote: > > On 21/10/2018 11:18, José A. Fernández Troncoso 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. > > It presumes a tax regime, unfortunately. > >> 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. > > The general problem is that the report presumes you are merkin and have few > external tx > > The other way is to go for Trading Accounts, but that means thinking
It does not presume a tax regime. Booking gains and losses is necessary to balance the accounting equation: Assets increased or decreased and that change needs to be reflected somewhere in Equity via an income or expense split. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ 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.
