Income from Retirement Investments?

[Derek Atkins]

"Dennis Craven" <dcraven at gmail.com> writes:

> And to make it *not* appear as income, but still track the continually
> changing value of the fund:
>
> Assets:Investments:MyFund                   100.00
> Assets:Investments:Unrealized Gain                      100.00

Actually, in this case I think you'd want to use an Equity account
and not an Asset account..   Because the Unrealize Gains asset account
would go negative, which probably isn't what you want.

-derek
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