Foreign investment problems

[Aaron Gaudio]

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 00:10 -0700, Danny Ciarniello wrote:

> I appreciate the USD isn't a Stock.  Maybe I wasn't entirely clear with 
> the problem.  When I create a new file and use the wizard to create a 
> set of Investment accounts, I get an account tree like:
> 
> Assets
> - Investments
> -- Brokerage Account
> --- Bond
> --- Stock
> --- Market Index
> --- Mutual Fund
> 
> plus, of course, the Income and Expense trees.  When I right-click and 
> select Edit Account, the settings for each account are:
> 
> Assets : Type Asset, Commodity CAD
> Investments : Type Asset, Commodity CAD
> Brokerage Account : Type Bank, Commodity CAD
> Bond : Type Stock, Commodity CAD
> Stock : Type Stock, Commodity CAD
> Market Index : Type Mutual Fund, Commodity CAD
> Mutual Fund : Type Mutual Fund, Commodity CAD
> 

These settings are wrong. A Stock parent account (to represent a
brokerage, for example) should be simply of type "Asset" with a currency
commodity.