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

[D.]

The Total(Period) column includes the value of actual transactions during the period. Changes in valuation aren't counted in this value because they are unrealized. You are seeing a number in the one account precisely because you rolled the money over from one account to another. That was an actual transaction. 


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From: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
Sent: Fri Jan 08 14:52:22 EST 2021
To: David Reiser <dbreiser at icloud.com>
Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] How is Total(period) in Account Tree intended to work for brokerage accounts?

Parenthetically, this year, having business holidays around calendar
year-end, you need to make sure that you understand how Gnucash picks
values out of the price database when designing your reports.

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?
>
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