On Apr 25, 11:21 am, John Wiegley <[email protected]> wrote: > Right now -- as with most things in the ledger world because it's about > reporting and not entering or modifying data -- you have to manually > specify exactly which past commodities you wish to sell.
So you need to specify the original cost of the commodities you wish to sell or the date on which you bought those commodities or both? What does ledger do if you specify neither? Must the cost be the actual purchase price or can it be an average cost? Since capital gains (or profit in general) is both an income entry and a kind of report, might a ledger option compute these profit entries on behalf of the user which the user could then use to replace the original entries? Or, if the user leaves them out, might ledger compute them automatically, similar to how it already automatically balances a transaction by calculating the other side? Derek
