Although the Trading Accounts section and total are selected to be included by default, the accounts are not. When I run an Income Statement, they do not appear and are not included in my bottom line Profit/Loss net.
If I want them to appear, I simply select them in the Options > Accounts tab. The Net Profit/Loss will include them in the calculation. (A Trading Gain will adjust upwards, a Trading Loss downwards, as expected) The section is labeled and separated from the Income/Revenue section as you mentioned. By default, the Balance Sheet includes the accounts. If I want a version of this report without them, I simply de-select them in the Options > Accounts tab. The result is that my Retained Earnings/Losses is adjusted accordingly. (this is a calculated line, not one from a real Equity:Retained Earnings account) So you can have what you are after, just not by default. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 12, 2020 w16d103, at 2:55 PM, David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> > wrote: > > Hi Adrien, > > But it does include the gains and losses from the trading account as > realized gains and losses and in this case they also appear in the Balance > Sheet in this case as Trading Losses. The Imbalance AUD of -0.26 resulted > because i tried to create a Realized gains Transaction from the trading > account but it would not let me. If I delete that transaction, the Imbalance > Aud goes away and all is good. > Trading_test_balance_sheet_realized_gains_transaction_deleted.png > <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/t375329/Trading_test_balance_sheet_realized_gains_transaction_deleted.png> > > > I personally don't thing the trading gains and losses should appear in the > Balance sheet at all but should only appear in the Income Statement for the > period as in effect they are actually or should be Income accounts. The > trading account type must be basically of type Asset which gets them > included in the Assets total and then to get a balance you have to include > the trading gains and losses in Equity . > > I remember there was a bit of discussion about this when the balance sheets > were being updated a year or two ago. I think Chris Lam was doing that work > . As i didn't use the trading accounts at the time I don't think I butted in > on that one. > > David _______________________________________________ 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.
