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

[David Carlson]

What, exactly do you mean by 'real' total?

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:59 PM David Reiser <dbreiser at icloud.com> wrote:

> The brokerage parent is in dollars. The individual fund accounts under it
> are in shares. But it’s the same setup for both the account that shows a
> ‘real’ total and those that show 0.00.
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> Dave Reiser
> dbreiser at icloud.com
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> On Jan 8, 2021, at 2:55 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> For each account, is ti's value in US Dollars or is it in shares that have
> some US Dollar value per share??
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> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:51 PM David Reiser <dbreiser at icloud.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
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