Thanks / question about bonds

[David Hampton]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 02:05 -0400, Peter Williams wrote:

> Second, I'm trying to enter account for some bonds in my Gnucash file.
> What is the recommended way to do this? Clearly, I can put the interest
> I get every X months into an income account. But I'm not sure where or
> how to record the bond itself. Since the price of a bond changes I kind
> of want to classify it as a security, but the prices can't be updated
> because bonds don't have ticker symbols (right?).

You should enter the bond the same way you would enter a stock or mutual
fund.  Bond prices cannot automatically be updated, or at least I
haven't seen a web site for that, but you can manually enter new bond
prices at any time using the price editor.

David