2026-04-18 GnuCash IRC logs
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08:28:11 <bauen1> jralls: mostly yes, but the fees are still irritating me because they defy my logic of "the trading account should be reconciled for zero after all stock transactions have been cleared", but I will look into it a bit more, and try to make a few screenshots / a demo file
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13:17:01 <jralls> bauen1, The trading account split values are calculated only from the stock split amounts and values. The buy transaction might look like:
13:18:08 <jralls> Stock 10 9.90 99.00
13:18:34 <jralls> Fee 0.10
13:19:57 <jralls> Hmm, getting the columns to line up isn't working. The 99.00 and 0.10 are in the same column, debit.
13:20:32 <jralls> Cash 99.10 CR
13:20:48 <jralls> And the sell transaction would be
13:21:29 <jralls> Stock -10 10.00 100.00 CR
13:21:43 <jralls> Fee 0.10 DR
13:22:48 <jralls> Cash 99.90 DR
13:39:05 <jralls> The trading splits on the buy would then be Trading:Stock -10 9.90 99.00 CR, Trading:EUR 99.00 DR and on the sell Trading:Stock +10 10.00 100.00 DR, Trading:EUR 100.00 CR, leaving a 1.00 CR balance in Trading:EUR.
13:55:09 <jralls> Scrubbing will create a €1.00 capital gain transaction that zeroes the balance in Trading:EUR. IIUC you want to have the capital gain transaction to be net of the fees while showing the fees as a separate split. Is that right?
14:50:19 <bauen1> jralls: so about the 1.00CR imbalance, yes, scrubbing will make the 1€ be balanced again with the capital gains transaction
14:51:34 <jralls> Right. But you want to have a €.80 cap gain, i.e. net of fees, right?
14:51:41 <bauen1> jralls: it would actually be easiest for me to have the capital gains transaction to be the 1€ (because that's a number I'm getting from my documents) and then have an extra split to "undo" the fee, so I end up with the actual gross gain of 0.80
14:51:51 <bauen1> jralls: yeah kind of, I want to have my cake and eat it too xD
14:52:22 <jralls> That's not unreasonable, but I don't see a clean way to make it work.
14:52:33 <bauen1> in theory all i would need to add is a split on the capital gains that "goes from the fees paid"
14:53:18 <bauen1> jralls: I don't mind if I need to add an extra transaction, but I guess I will run across this near the end of the year when I actually have to collect the numbers for filling out taxes
14:59:33 <jralls> If you add a split to the cap gains txn that reduces the cap gains by the net fee amount, what do you balance it against? You wouldn't want to reduce the fees account. If you apply it to the stock account it will be reflected in the trading accounts. I guess you could create an account in Equity somewhere to bury it.
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