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

[David Carlson]

Going back to the question in the title of this thread, the Total(period)
indicates the sum of all transactions for that account during the default
period, which, I think, is the current year.  Check your preferences on
that.  So the number for the brokerage account period would be the sum of
dollars in and out, and for each security account would be the sum of
shares in and out as you see by the denominations next to the values.  This
column makes more sense in the income and expense accounts than in asset or
liability accounts.

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 2:07 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>> --
>> 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:
>>
>> 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.
>>> --
>>> Dave Reiser
>>> dbreiser at icloud.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 8, 2021, at 2:47 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> David,
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:55 PM David Reiser via gnucash-user <
>>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dave Reiser
>>>> dbreiser at icloud.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> David Carlson
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>> David Carlson
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David Carlson