Chapter 8 - investment accounts

[David Carlson]

On 1/31/2015 12:55 PM, Wm wrote:
> Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:35:44 <1422725744037-4675554.post at n4.nabble.com>
> Jamestk <davidjamestk at hotmail.co.uk>
>
> [nothing snipped, I'm guessing he is referring to the Subject: ]
>
>> I don't currently use the double entry method for recording
>> profit/loss on
>> stocks and shares for reasons above.
>
> I didn't know you could do it another way with gnc.
>
>> Every now and then I ponder on other solutions to the problem which
>> may be a
>> little more automated than manually entering profit/loss as you,
>> after all
>> you have the net figures there, just a case of getting a balance.
>
> A balance can indeed say that.  What it won't tell you is what changed.
>
> If you want to treat all your investments as one big lump I don't
> think gnc prevents you from doing that.
>
>> I accept it's probably a whole lot easier to do at the time, but even so
>> still a lot of extra data entry/categories required.
>
> OK, what was the actual question?
>
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Wm,

Check out the two page thread that jamestk referred to in his previous
post.  There is a lot of excellent content there.

David C