John, Mailman was hungry. It ate your screenshots.
Regards, Adrien >>>>> > > Chris, > > To demonstrate the price difference on assets creating an “Unrealized Gain” > line, I created a fake account with Trading Accounts off and purchased on 1 > January 100 shares of a stock for $100, then created a new price for the > stock of $200. The resulting Balance Sheet report is the first screenshot > below. Price source is set to “nearest in time”. > > I repeated the process in a new book with trading accounts enabled and got > the second screenshot. As you pointed out, the “Unrealized Gains” line > changes to “Trading Gains”. Selling the stock made no difference on the > report unless I also booked the 10,000 gain to Income:Short Term Cap Gains, > after which the calculated line became “Retained Earnings” as illustrated by > the third screen shot. > > I went back and did the sale on the non-trading-accounts book and found that > indeed “Unrealized Gains” didn’t change after I sold the stock; that’s wrong, > it’s a realized gain at that point. Booking the gain to Income changed the > line to “Retained Earnings” as it did with trading accounts enabled and as > expected. > > Finally, to illustrate the effect of price source I removed the sell > transaction and changed the price source in report options to “Avg Cost”. The > result is the last screenshot, showing the stock at book value and the > “Unrealized Gains” line at 0. > > Regards, > John Ralls > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
