Chapter 8 - investment accounts

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Jamestk <davidjamestk at hotmail.co.uk> writes:

> Ploughing through adding in lots of stock related transactions.
>
> I find that selecting the category from the drop down menu can takes
> sometime if you have lots of opposing types of entry. For example, you may
> enter broker commission which is at the top under 'Assets' then a capital
> loss right at the bottom under, well let me get to that.
>
> In order to reduce the number of categories and the above issue I used on
> some occasions income cat for both income and loss. The most used one is
> 'Capital gains' which I have used for both losses and gains.
>
> I can of course change this but wanted to know what would be the overall
> effect, if any?

You do realize you can do partial-typing to get to your accounts, right?
E.g., you can type a:c:... to get to "Assets:Current Assets:...."

> Thank you -

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-derek

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