Re: [GNC] Bug in design of commodity sell transactions? (was Re: Getting My Account To Trial Balance)

2018-07-27 Thread DaveC49
Adrien, >From what little I know of the automatic gains/loss calculations by default the gain or loss on a transaction is created in an Orphan-Gains-CCC account by default and the user has to reassign the gain or loss to an appropriate income account. See

Re: [GNC] Bug in design of commodity sell transactions? (was Re: Getting My Account To Trial Balance)

2018-07-26 Thread David Carlson
Adrien, In the second transaction you received $150 for the stock which you had paid $100 for. The extra $50 is income which came from the changed value of the stock. The sale would not reduce the value of the stock to zero unless the profit is taken from unrealized gain. That unrealized

[GNC] Bug in design of commodity sell transactions? (was Re: Getting My Account To Trial Balance)

2018-07-25 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I suppose this is for another thread and certainly not on point for the OP’s question, but I don’t see those two transactions as balanced. The first one is. You credit $100 from Assets:Cash and debit $100 to Assets:Stocks (or whatever it’s designated as) The second one is not balanced. You’re