Derek Atkins schrieb: > > Herbert Thoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But I explicitly want a "balancing split" which goes either to > > income:capital_gain or expense:capital_loss. > > I'm not convinced that that is the right way to keep track of it. You > certainly don't have any splits for unrealized gains/losss, so why do > you necessarily need a split for a realized gain/loss?
Unrealized gain/loss is no "real" money. But realized gain is actual income which I have to pay tax for, realized loss reduces my tax payment. So I have to account for realized gain/loss. > > Right now (in GnuCash 1.6) I use a ugly workaround: > > In the stock register I "sell" a stock for the price I bought it, > > the actual amount goes to the cash account, the difference to > > capital_gain or capital_loss. > > This sounds like an ugly kludge; I'm not convinced it's what we want > in the long run. It _is_ a ugly kludge but I know of no better way. Any suggestions? > Question: how does quicken keep track of it? I don't know, I never used quicken. Herbert. > > Herbert. > > -derek > > > > Each transaction is balanced on each > > > individual purchase/sale. The lot balances when you sell all the > > > shares out of the lot. > > > > > > The balance of the lot is the sum of the AMOUNTS of the splits in the > > > lot. The gain/loss is the balance of the the VALUES of the splits in > > > the lot. > > > > > > > Ed > > > > > > -derek > > > > > > > Derek Atkins wrote: > > > > > > > > >Ed Warnicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > >[snip] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>What would be the right way to account for this? > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > >Using LOTs (which are currently in development) to relate purchases to > > > > >sales. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>Ed > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > >-derek > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > > > > > -- > > > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > > > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > > > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > > > -- > > Herbert Thoma > > FhG-IIS A, Studio Department > > Am Weichselgarten 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany > > Phone: +49-9131-776-323 > > Fax: +49-9131-776-399 > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www: http://www.iis.fhg.de/ > > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available -- Herbert Thoma FhG-IIS A, Studio Department Am Weichselgarten 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Phone: +49-9131-776-323 Fax: +49-9131-776-399 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.iis.fhg.de/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
