Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I was running through the process of buying and selling stocks, and a few thoughts occurred to me.
Assume you use the "stock" account type, and follow the proceedure to build a stock commodity, set the price in the price editor, etc. When you sell the stock, for a profit, how does this income get accounted for? Is the stock account itself a pseudo-income account?
This is a bug. This is what Lots are supposed to solve. It has not been finished.
What you need to do is create a split txn that balances out the profit based on the cost of the stock and then link that split txn into a cap-gains income account.
Okay, can you take a look at this (there is a table and a screenshot, so I can't just paste text):
http://www.jandr.org/temp/gnucashdocs/invest_sell1.html
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