Setting up an investment account

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 26 04:03:01 EDT 2016


Elmar, 
I suspect Derek is right; that is, your account, while set as a mutual fund type, is not set as a commodity.
You will need to create a commodity first, and then assign it to the account. For a regular mutual fund, you would identify it by its code, but with the TSP plan, you would simply create a dummy commodity entry. Be sure not to tick the Get online quotes button. 
To update the share value, you will need to update manually in the price database. 
HTH, David

 
 
  On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 5:31, Derek Atkins<derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:   Hi,

I'm back at a keyboard now.

So if your "Account Type" has "Mutual Fund" selected, then up in the
Identification section of the Edit Account  dialog should have a
Security/currency selected -- what is in that box?  My guess is that it's
USD, which would cause your issue.  If it's NOT USD, then what exactly
does it say?

-derek

On Mon, July 25, 2016 7:55 pm, Elmar Schmeisser wrote:
> Mutual Fund
>
> - elmar
>
> On 7/25/2016 7:44 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Under Edit Account, what is the Account Type?
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Sent on my mobile. Please forgive any typos.
>>
>> ----- Reply message -----
>> From: "Elmar Schmeisser" <eschmeisser at nc.rr.com>
>> To: "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com>, "GNU Cash User"
>> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: Setting up an investment account
>> Date: Mon, Jul 25, 2016 6:11 PM
>>
>> To be specific, this is the federal Thrift Savings Plan, and
>> specifically the L-income fund, so I have no idea what the "commodity"
>> is or how to set it.  All I see under "edit account" that might apply is
>> "smallest fraction - use commodity  value".
>>
>> On 7/25/2016 6:02 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>> So account type is mutual fund and the account commodity is....???
>>>
>>> -derek
>>>
>>> Sent on my mobile. Please forgive any typos.
>>>
>>> ----- Reply message -----
>>> From: "Elmar Schmeisser" <eschmeisser at nc.rr.com>
>>> To: "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com>, "GNU Cash User"
>>> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>> Subject: Setting up an investment account
>>> Date: Mon, Jul 25, 2016 5:49 PM
>>>
>>> Yes - it is set as a mutual fund
>>>
>>> On 7/25/2016 5:33 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>>> Did you set the commodity on the account to your stock/fund?
>>>>
>>>> -derek
>>>>
>>>> Sent on my mobile. Please forgive any typos.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Reply message -----
>>>> From: "Elmar Schmeisser" <eschmeisser at nc.rr.com>
>>>> To: "GNU Cash User" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>>> Subject: Setting up an investment account
>>>> Date: Mon, Jul 25, 2016 5:24 PM
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to set up an investment account that has an opening
>>>> balance
>>>> of "x" shares at "y" price resulting in "z" cash value.  But when I
>>>> enter the actual price per share and the number of shares into the
>>>> mutual fund line, GC forces the share price to 1 rather than what I
>>>> entered and teh number of shares to the cash equivalent.  Why does GC
>>>> do
>>>> this and how can I get it to let me insert the price per share? -
>>>> Elmar
>>>>
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