Il 18/05/22 16:46, David T. ha scritto:
First, the analogy of a painting's unrealized gains to those of any
other asset is perfectly valid. The only difference is that there is
only one "share" of the painting, while there are many shares of a
stock or mutual fund. Their change in value is going to be the
unrealized gain or loss.
The analogy breaks down, however, when one tries to post the adjustment
from the fund's register ;(
Second, my (admittedly very basic) understanding of accounting is that
unrealized gains, from an accounting perspective *don't exist.* You
don't have the gains until you sell the asset. Gnucash applies this
concept rather strictly.
These points being said, there have been suggestions made in this list
by others more qualified than I on the circumstances in which a user
might need to track unrealized gains and account for them on an
ongoing basis. I believe the term they used was "mark to market." You
might look for those threads in the list archives.
Ok, thanks for the pointer, I found something useful among older posts:
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2015-November/062899.html
(mark to market)
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2017-January/068284.html
(the report mentioned here seems to work but it's just a report)
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2017-January/068274.html
(except for the regulatory reasons, I'm in the same situation: trading
accounts and books closed at end of year)
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2016-December/068103.html
(my situation...)
Andrea.
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