On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 10:17 AM Harry Foerster <hfoers...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> It seems this email request has gone sideways a bit. > > The actual transactions are being handled by the financial institutions > accordingly and reported to me in statements. I fully believe their > accountants are following the proper Canadian financial security laws. > > The crust of my request for assistance was how I could personally record > these transaction into Gnucash; what steps or procedures does Gnucash have > to allow the transfer, on the cost basis, of units between accounts in > Gnucash. Any suggestions or hints on a path to follow is appreciated. > > Technically, our answer remains the same, 'Ask your accountant.' However, once your accountant has given you an answer regarding how Canadian accountants handle such transactions in their accounting reports to the government, you can go the the GnuCash Tutorial. There you can read the Investments section which only covers certain specific cases but describes a lot of detail about the inner workings of GnuCash and often leads users to their own creative solutions to coaxing GnuCash into generating similar reports. There has also been a lot of discussion in this maillist over the years and sometimes a user can describe details about, say, how the 'Lots' feature works or how unrealized income is calculated in reports. Your question probably revolves around when and how to track unrealized gains or convert them to realized gains. While I know absolutely nothing about how you do that in Canada, I do know it is far different from the way it is done in the US, and Carte Blanche assumptions are probably wrong. There may be some Canadian users able to share how they track similar situations, perhaps at your local library. Most of what you will find here is based on the assumption that the stock or fund is bought or sold from the same security account at the same brokerage house, not 'in kind' transfers between brokers or from your safety deposit box to your broker. Good Luck, David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.
