We track the acquisition date separately as Gnucash only tracks
transaction dates.
On 5/31/26 1:32 AM, Fred Tydeman wrote:
If you do the sell/rebuy at the date of each return of capital,
that could mess up long term versus short term capital gains.
On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 2:37 PM Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Fred,
The approach we use it to enter a transaction selling each lot's shares
at their current cost basis, purchasing the same number of shares of
each lot at their new cost basis, and recording the amount of capital
returned to an income account for the security. We use a separate
transaction from the income account for the security to the account that
receives the return of capital.
Regards,
Sherlock
On 5/30/26 7:30 PM, Fred Tydeman wrote:
I have a stock that has had a few Return of Capital transactions.
They have been recorded as sell of zero shares at zero price for the
Return of Capital dollar amount.
When I look at the Advanced Portfolio report for that stock,
the Basis price is the original purchase amount. I am expecting that
the Basis price to be original purchase amount - (sum of Return of
Capital).
Did I record Return of Capital wrong?
Is there a bug in the Advanced Portfolio?
Is there a better way to find the basis of a stock?
GnuCash 5.14 on Fedora Linux 44
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