Thank you, John and David: Using an income acount to record the loss solves the issue.
I'm afraid I was misled by the Tutorial and Concepts Guide where it says: "Account for the profit or loss as coming from an Income:Capital Gains or Expenses:Capital Loss account. " (section 9.7.1.1). Regards, Jose On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 5:20:51 PM CEST David T. wrote: > Jose, > > Just to be clear, I believe John is pointing out that your capital > losses should be recorded in an Income account, rather than an > Expense account. > > David > > > On Oct 21, 2018, at 8:05 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > That’s because the Advanced Portfolio Report is hard-wired to expect > > capital gains and losses to be posted to an income report with > > gains as credits and losses as debits. > > > > Regards, > > John Ralls > > > >> On Oct 21, 2018, at 3:18 AM, José A. Fernández Troncoso > >> <jstronc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Yes, when I create a sale transaction on the stock, a capital loss > >> is > >> calculated automatically by the report and shown as a negative > >> amount in the Realized Gain column. That's fine by me. > >> > >> The problem is that when I add a split to record the loss manually > >> on > >> the Expenses:Capital Loss acount, the amount recorded on the stock > >> acount split (in the Total Sell column) is then added to the Income > >> column of the report, as if it were a dividend. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Jose > >> > >> On Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 10:14:59 PM CEST Richard Ullger wrote: > >>> On 20/10/2018 17:19, José Antonio Fernández Troncoso wrote: > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> In my advanced porfolio report, capital losses linked to a stock > >>>> account are added to the Income column as if they were dividends. > >>>> > >>>> Could anyone using this report provide some feedback as to > >>>> whether > >>>> this also happens to them? Is there a bug in the report or am I > >>>> doing something wrong? > >>>> > >>>> I'm using GnuCash Version: 3.2. Build ID: 3.2+ (2018-06-24). > >>> > >>> I've been using this report for some time and have never seen this > >>> behaviour. I'm currently using Build ID: git 3.3+ (2018-09-29) > >>> > >>> The income column reflects the income that I have recorded against > >>> the stock. > >>> > >>> A capital loss is shown as a negative amount in the Realised Gain > >>> column. However there appears to be a bug in the amount of > >>> Realised > >>> Gain. The report seems to try to calculate the gain/loss rather > >>> than > >>> report on any gain/loss recorded against the stock. > >>> > >>> A loss in the valuation is shown as a negative amount in the > >>> Unrealised Gain column. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Richard. > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> gnucash-user mailing list > >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org > >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > >>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > >>> ----- > >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gnucash-user mailing list > >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org > >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > >> ----- > >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
