Change to the Advanced Portfolio report

[David Carlson]

On 1/20/2015 4:15 PM, Mike Alexander wrote:
> --On January 20, 2015 at 1:45:25 PM -0600 David Carlson
> <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> However, your suggestion brings up the point that the QIF or OFX
>> importer would need to differentiate between many similar investment
>> transactions in the same file that should be allocated to different
>> sub-accounts.  Can that part of the process work automatically or
>> would it be necessary to manually fine tune each of those 30 or 40
>> sub-transactions to the correct sub-accounts each time.  I have not
>> even tried importing investment transactions in several years because
>> GnuCash used to fail miserably with them.
>
> I don't know exactly how your accounts are set up or what your
> custodian provides, but it works for me with TIAA/CREF.  I have my
> GnuCash accounts set up with a separate asset account for each
> separate TIAA/CREF account (403B, 401A, 403B Supplemental, etc.) and
> under each I have an account for each fund in that particular
> account.  When I import the QFX file, it creates transactions between
> the appropriate asset account and fund account.  I still need to enter
> income transactions to cover the withdrawals from the asset account
> for reinvestment transactions, but this isn't too cumbersome.  The
> hard part is done automatically.
>
>                  Mike
>
>

Mike,

It is good to see that the QFX importer should be able to do investment
imports involving more than one account.  When I have time I shall try
to use that feature.  Alas, since none of my custodians and brokerage
houses offer that form directly, it probably will not be soon.

David C