Investments (Mutual Funds)

Chris Good chris.good at ozemail.com.au
Thu Jul 21 18:31:49 EDT 2016


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> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 13:08:05 -0700
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> To: Beryn Neeley <neeleyb1 at gmail.com>, "gnucash-user at gnucash.org"
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> On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Beryn Neeley <neeleyb1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have established Mutual Fund accounts under the investments account.
> > Initially, I entered the dollar value of the fund balances as the
> > number of shares and I entered the price as $1.00 to display the
> > correct total value of the investment portfolio.  A few days later, I
> > obtained the detail information on the number of units (shares) of
> > each fund and their respective prices.  When I keyed in the number of
> > units and the applicable prices, I saw that the number of units was
> > displayed on that accounts tab where I expected to see the $-value of
> > the portfolio.  To maintain the correct balances, I re-entered the
> > transactions as I did originally (with a price of $1.00).
> >
> > Kindly assist me in understanding how to setup these investments.
> >
> > With regard to loans, I went through a process to setup the loan
> > payments but I am not confident in how this is supposed to work.  I
> > expected to setup a loan and expected that the loan payments would
> > flow from it.  I actually set up the loan balances as accounts.
> > Please provide guidance on setting up loans and their payments.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Beryn

Hi Beryn,

Re your investments, you may need to go into Tools, Price Editor to correct
the wrong price originally entered.
Note: like the Accounts tab, you can use the down arrow button at the top
right of the Price Database window
to customise the columns that display.
In my Accounts tab, I display Account Name, Type, Description, Total, Total
(currency), Total (Period).
In my Price Database window, I display all the columns available.

I'll leave it to some-one else to advise about loans.

Hope this helps,

Regards,
Chris Good
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