Balance sheet problem

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115 at yahoo.com> writes:

> I am running version 2.2.1 [under Ubuntu 7.10] which is the release on their repository.
>
> I started this file at the end of 2006, at which point the Balance Sheet was correct.
>
> During the year I had some stock accounts [3] in which there was either a reduction of basis due to a distribution of another company's stock or to a sale of some shares.

Did you manually account for the gain/loss from this transaction?

> In both cases the balance sheet report calculates the wrong $ value for the asset and compensates with an Unrealised Gain entry in the equity section of the report.
>
> I don't recall this having been discussed previously. Is it something that has been corrected in the 2.2.4 release? [I didn't want to mess up my connection with the Ubuntu repository.]

There's a backport of 2.2.4.  You SHOULD upgrade.

> Thanks for the help.
>
> Paul

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-derek

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