investment terminology and types
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Jul 22 10:42:39 CDT 2003
David Ayers <fogey at mindspring.com> writes:
> Hi Jon,
>
> I am planning to switch from Quicken to GnuCash and have been following
> this thread. If I understand what you all are saying, for an investment
> account with check writing privileges I could set up the cash balance as
> a bank account and also include the same cash balance in the investment
> account so the interest will be included in investment return. Am I
> reading you correctly?
Not necessarily. The fact that you can write checks does not
necessarily mean that it's a "Bank". IMHO, what defines a "Bank" from
another kind of investment is really based on the commodity. If you
have "shares" then generally it's not a Bank. For example, my
Vanguard fund has checkwriting abilities, but it's definitely an
investment (because it's shares of some VX... fund).
> When entering the interest income from the account statement, I assume
> this can be handled with a single transaction with debits and credits to
> the proper accounts. Is this right?
Yes.
> Dave
-derek
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