Best way to manage utilities

[Alberto Dante]

I want to register quantity and price unit (electricity, for istance), all utilities are charged monthly or two-monthly in Italy.
Currently there are two investment account types that manage quantity and price unit: Stock and Mutual Fund, having the same functionality, and allowed as sub-accounts only of Assets and Lialilities.
We should have only one investment account "Commodity" (as sub-account of Assets and Liabilities) to manage Stock, Mutual Funds, ... and a similar account "Utilities" (as sub-account of Income and Expenses) to manage electricity, ...
I don't know if changes of Price Scatterplot report are needed.
Please refer to Bug 728829 too.
Thanks Alberto
> Depends what you want to do. I wouldn't expect Gnucash to, for example,
> translate our household energy usage into tonnes of CO2, and graph it
> with annotations marking when there were changes in our main
> energy-consuming appliances and improvements to our insulation. I also
> have it compare the standard flat-rate charge for our electricity that
> we currently pay with the price we would pay if we chose a time-of-use plan.
>
> All our utilities except phone/ISP are charged quarterly so the effort
> maintaining the second set of figures is minimal.
>
> The utilities spreadsheets have remained unchanged through three changes
> of accounting program - spreadsheet cash book, Quicken for Mac, and now
> Gnucash.
>
> Peter