How to enter asset management fees?

[J. Perkins]

Positive. The management fees are the only entries other than paycheck 
contributions, yet advanced portfolio shows a (small) return on my 
investment.

Jason


Daniel Hannum wrote:
> I believe that is the right way to represent it. It's a sale of shares. 
> 
> The problem is that the Advanced Portfolio Report doesn't handle
> "advanced" cases very well. Actually, I believe it ignores "money out"
> in it's return calculations. I do NOT think it treats them as return.
> Are you sure about that?
> 
> On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 08:17, J. Perkins wrote:
> 
>>I have been busy entering all of my investment information into GnuCash 
>>1.8.1, and I've hit a case I can't figure out. My 401(k) charges an 
>>annual "asset management fee", which shows up on the statement as a sale 
>>of shares of each investment. I entered this into gc as a sale of 
>>shares, transferred to an expense account, and marked as a "fee". 
>>However, the advanced portfolio report shows this as "money out" and 
>>considers it a return on my investment, skewing my total return numbers. 
>>Am I doing this right? Is there a better way to enter these kinds of 
>>transactions that won't mess up the performance numbers?