[GNC] order of transactions for mutual funds

[David Carlson]

I think that Christian is asking a slightly different question.  I
interpret it that in one parent custodial mutual fund account he purchased
Fund A on dates 1, 2 and later then sold some or all of Fund A and bought
Fund B in the same custodial account on date 3.

Now I am not sure if he needs to account for capital gain at that point or
later on date 4 when he actually withdraws the funds from the parent
custodial account.

David C

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 8:05 AM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, November 14, 2018 8:42 am, Christian Pinedo Zamalloa wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to know if it is possible to order manually the transactions
> > of a mutual fund account.
> >
> > When I transfer suscriptions from one mutual fund to another one, the
> > order
> > of the transfer transaction depends on the date when the transfer was
> > done.
> >
> > However, it would be quite useful to reorder this transfer transaction
> > because according to FIFO laws for mutual funds in my country, transfers
> > of
> > mutual funds mut be ordered according to the initial purchase not to the
> > date of the transfer between funds. So:
> >
> > - Suscription of Fund A, date: 1, effective_date: 1
> > - More Subscriptions, date: 2, effective_date: 2
> > - Transfer of Fund A to Fund B, date: 3, effective_date: 1
>
> GnuCash does have multiple dates, which include the post-date, entry-date,
> reconcile-date..  but only one visible date: the post-date.
>
> You have two options:
>
> 1) You could set the post-date to date 3 and put date 1 in the transfer
> description, or
> 2) You can set the post-date to date 1 (and put date 3 in the description).
>
> I can think of no other way to do what you want.
>
> Personally, (noting that IANAA), I would go with option 1.
>
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Christian Pinedo
>
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> -derek
>
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