Code to automatically compute and handle capital gains on stock accounts is more-or-less done, in the CVS HEAD branch. There's a simple GUI called "View Lots" . If you bring that up, and then "Scrub Account", it will automatically compute cap gains for all stock purchases/sales. If you edit prices, dates, amounts, values, etc. in the register window, the cap gains will be automatically kept in sync, i.e. should always be 'correct'.
Sometime after the gnome2 port, the 'Lot Viewer' GUI will get a minor extension to allow one to manually construct lots (so that one can have 'designated' trading lots). The current default uses a FIFO policy to figure out the cap gains. To try out this feature, you will have to get the CVS code and compile it yourself. Remember, this code is still beta: it may be buggy (although I think I fixed them all), and is subject to change before the final version. --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
