[GNC] How is Total(period) in Account Tree intended to work for brokerage accounts?

[David Reiser]

I finally understand that a transaction must occur during the period to be included.

However, the unrealized gain is included for stock transactions based in the current period. The Account Tree is not a report, so it’s unclear how one might change the evaluation. But my Total(period) for the account with stock transactions this year absolutely is showing today’s value of any stock transaction occurring during the period. (Where “today’s value” means the value of the stock account as determined by the latest entry in the price database for that stock.)

My Total(period) for the brokerage account containing (only) stock transactions from this year is showing me the current, appreciated value of those transactions based on entries in the price database that have been added since the purchase transactions.
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Dave Reiser
dbreiser at icloud.com





> On Jan 8, 2021, at 5:10 PM, D. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> The Total(Period) column includes the value of actual transactions during the period. Changes in valuation aren't counted in this value because they are unrealized. You are seeing a number in the one account precisely because you rolled the money over from one account to another. That was an actual transaction.
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Fri Jan 08 14:52:22 EST 2021
> To: David Reiser <dbreiser at icloud.com>
> Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] How is Total(period) in Account Tree intended to work for brokerage accounts?
> 
> Parenthetically, this year, having business holidays around calendar
> year-end, you need to make sure that you understand how Gnucash picks
> values out of the price database when designing your reports.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:55 PM David Reiser via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
>> I have a number of brokerage-like accounts (cursed with multiple TIAA
>> contracts…). In most cases, the Total(period) column in the account tree
>> page lists $0.00 as that total.
>> 
>> I did a roth conversion at the end of 2020 that resulted in the money for
>> the conversion being moved to the new account in 2020, but the reinvestment
>> transactions took place in 2021. For that account, the total(period) lists
>> the dollar-value change of that account, including the increase in mutual
>> fund value since the investment transactions took place. It would really be
>> nice if all the brokerage account accounts showed the total value change in
>> the current accounting period. What’s different about the new account
>> (seems to be set up identically to all the other brokerage parent
>> accounts)? Should I be able to get the other brokerage accounts to exhibit
>> the same totalling behavior?
>> 
>> --
>> Dave Reiser
>> dbreiser at icloud.com
>> 
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