401(k) Accounts

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Oct 3 12:35:25 CDT 2003


"Bobby Goins" <goins at iglou.com> writes:

> All,
> 
> How does one deal with 401(k) investment accounts in gnucash?  I have 
> not found anything in the docs that address this issue.
> 
> With 401(k) accounts, you do not know the price of the stocks / mutual 
> funds purchased, only the number of purchased shares of each and the 
> cash withdrawal amount to cover the purchases.  

Uh, that's enough to compute the price..  Price = Cash / #Shares.
You only need to know two of the three values; GnuCash will autocompute
the third for you if you don't know it.

-derek
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