Stock accounts

[Randall Hopper]

     I'm a new GNUCash user and getting ready to key in my mutual fund and
stock-based accounts.  My question is:

     - Is it better to:
         put each stock for a brokerage account in separate
         GNUCash accounts and then group with a parent GNUCash account, 
            OR
         put all stocks for a brokerage account in a single GNUCash account?

The GNUCash docs don't appear to contain stock "getting started" advice
except to say that:

     "The portfolio ledger can seem a bit daunting at first sight. If you
     have trouble understanding it, then you may wish to create an account
     for each stock you wish to track."  

which implies there's a choice!  What implicit choices is one making when
one uses a single GNUCash account per brokerage account vs. one GNUCash
account per stock/fund?

     BTW thanks for a great package!  I'm a new GNUCash user starting out
with 1.6.1 and very impressed.  Bank, Credit, Loan, and Asset entry and
statement reconcilation for the last month was amazingly smooth (a few
questions on that later).  Where do I send a donation to support the cause?

Randall


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Randall Hopper
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