[GNC] How is Total(period) in Account Tree intended to work for brokerage accounts?

[David Carlson]

For each account, is ti's value in US Dollars or is it in shares that have
some US Dollar value per share??

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:51 PM David Reiser <dbreiser at icloud.com> wrote:

> All security values are updated on a roughly daily basis. And since all of
> my investments and other accounts are linked to USD, I still don’t see any
> difference between the account that reports a ‘real’ total vs. the accounts
> that report 0.00.
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> Dave Reiser
> dbreiser at icloud.com
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> On Jan 8, 2021, at 2:47 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> David,
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> The total value of brokerage accounts is usually zero because that number
> only represents the cash in the account.  The securities are valued
> separately, usually in their share amounts.  You would need to separately
> make sure that GnuCash has been updated with the value of each of those
> shares in your preferred currency in order to create a report with the net
> value of all the securities in each brokerage account
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> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:55 PM David Reiser via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
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>> I have a number of brokerage-like accounts (cursed with multiple TIAA
>> contracts…). In most cases, the Total(period) column in the account tree
>> page lists $0.00 as that total.
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>> I did a roth conversion at the end of 2020 that resulted in the money for
>> the conversion being moved to the new account in 2020, but the reinvestment
>> transactions took place in 2021. For that account, the total(period) lists
>> the dollar-value change of that account, including the increase in mutual
>> fund value since the investment transactions took place. It would really be
>> nice if all the brokerage account accounts showed the total value change in
>> the current accounting period. What’s different about the new account
>> (seems to be set up identically to all the other brokerage parent
>> accounts)? Should I be able to get the other brokerage accounts to exhibit
>> the same totalling behavior?
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>> Dave Reiser
>> dbreiser at icloud.com
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David Carlson