Add an account to hold investments

[Derek Atkins]

John,

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

>> On Sep 11, 2015, at 12:49 AM, Sandip P. Deshmukh <deshmukh.sandip at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Here is my problem:
>> 
>> Start Gnucash -> New Account Hierarchy -> Investment Accounts -> Finish creates:
>> 
>> (Account Name: Security/ Currency : Placeholder : Account Type format)
>> 
>> Assets : USD : Placeholder : Asset
>> -  Investments : USD : Placeholder : Asset
>>   - Brokerage Account : USD: Live : Bank
>>     - Bond : USD : Live : Stock
>> 
>> In this Bond account, I can create multiple securities, say an AMZN security containing AMZN stock, etc.
>> 
>> But when I try creating another account similar to Bond at a same position (child of Brokerage Account), I can not select Security/ Currency as USD and account type as Stock.
>> 
>> How do I get that done?
>> 
>> Thanks for your help in advance.
>
> You shouldn’t have been able to create the “Bond” account as type
> STOCK with a currency either, the dialog should have emptied the
> Security/currency selector and blocked currencies when you set the
> account type to STOCK. How did you get around that the first time?

I believe it is a long-standing bug in the New Hierarchy assistant..

> Regards,
> John Ralls

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-derek
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