Heide, There’s an alternative: Let the Stock Assistant (in the Actions menu when you have a stock register open) guide you through creating the transaction.
Regards, John Ralls > On Feb 7, 2026, at 19:33, Heide Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > > John, > Thank you. I am more interested in using "Combine the sale and capital gain > in one transaction" as in 9.7.1.1. not the Captial 11. After I entered the > negative share and the selling price, I tapped 'split.' My account register > did not match the example's in 9.7.1.1. I must have done something wrong. > Any additional suggestions would be appreciated. > Heide > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 12:57 PM John Ralls <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_capgain.html >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> >>> On Feb 6, 2026, at 10:00, Heide Wang <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> I have held stocks in my Gnucash account for over 10 years; I've never sold >>> them. I recently sold the stock for a profit. What is the correct way to >>> record it to show the profit? I entered the negative share number and >>> total sold price, then tabbed the split, but it recorded the sale without >>> showing any profit. What did I do wrong? >>> I used Gnucash 5.10. My operating system is macOS Sequoia 15.7.3. >>> Thank you for your help. >>> Heide >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> ----- >>> 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 [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
