On 9/16/2025 12:09 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I have been following this discussion with interest, and now have a
question:
My Balance Sheet (report) shows an Unrealized Gains line near the
bottom, which is presumably my unrealized investment gains? But, I do
not find that I have an account named named Unrealized Gains... So, I
wonder how this Unrealized Gains line works, and if I should tap into
that process when recording the Unrealized Gains on my home?
I would prefer to keep these Unrealized Gains lines (investments vs
home) separated, but have them appear one-after-the-other in the
Balance Sheet (report).
Thanks,
Ken
It's a matter of NAMING your account (for unrealized gains)
But first an explanation of the "unrealized gains" (or losses) in the
Ba;lance Sheet. With gnucash, we do not usually perform a "close the
books" operation prior to running the Balance Sheet. So there is a net
outstanding sum of all the accounts of types income and expense. These
account types are actually of fundamental type Equity, so that net
belongs under Equity on the Balance sheet. The name being used is
Unrealized Gains (if credit) or Unrealized Losses (if debit)
So ---- If you want explicit "Unrealized Gains" accounts you will have
to create them with some different name <*> but note that you will want
them under assets (or liabilities or equity) and NOT under types income
or expense.
Michael D Novack
* They will be shoeing up where you put them.
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