[GNC] Single mutual fund held in multiple accounts in gnucash

[William Prescott]

When you specify the source account, you can just type a few characters from the name and it will move the entry to the first account with those characters in it. It used to have to be characters at the start of the account name but now it will find an account with those characters anywhere in its name. I think that has been true for version 4+

Will

On 2022 Jan 8, at 01-08 14:25:13, dave_k90 at yahoo.com wrote:


My formatting was messed up - what you describe is what I was looking to do. I've got several mutual funds and so there's lots of editing to get them added to the security list, plus create multiple individual accounts. It sounds like that's just what it takes. 

Is there any way to cut down on he number of accounts shown when you enter a transaction and specify the source account?  Mine shows all the accounts in a flat list which is already pretty long. 

Thanks for your help.

On Saturday, January 8, 2022, 01:35:19 PM EST, William Prescott <will at theprescotts.com> wrote:


I probably should have added that in my case all of the index funds are only held in one of the categories, but I see no reason why some fund could not be held in more that one category.
e.g. Index fund 1 and Index fund 8 could both be the same mutual fund. There would only be one entry for it in the Gnucash's Security Editor.

Will

On 2022 Jan 8, at 01-08 12:28:39, William Prescott <will at theprescotts.com <mailto:will at theprescotts.com>> wrote:

I probably don't understand exactly how you are proposing to set it up, but I can show you how I have mine set up.

Fund Manager A (e.g. Fidelity, Vanguard, other)
    Fund Manager A - IRA
        Index fund 1 (e.g. a single mutual index fund)
        Index fund 2 (e.g. another mutual index fund)
    Fund Manager A - Trust
        Cash Account
        Index fund 3
        Index fund 4
Fund Manager B (e.g. Fidelity, Vanguard, other)
    Fund Manager B - IRA
        Index fund 5 (e.g. a single mutual index fund)
        Index fund 6 (e.g. another mutual index fund)
    Fund Manager B - Trust
        Cash Account
        Index fund 7
        Index fund 8
etc
    
Will


On 2022 Jan 8, at 01-08 12:09:52, dave_k90--- via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>> wrote:

I'm a new user trying to setup gnucash to track investments. I've read through the documentation, googled etc, but haven't really seen this addressed, so want to make sure I'm not missing something.
Say I have multiple mutual funds, FUNDA, FUNDB, FUNDC etc.  And I have a brokerage account with several accounts - IRA, Spouse IRA, Non IRA etc.

I think my account list should look like:Investments    Brokerage        Brokerage - non IRA            Mutual Funds                  FUNDA                  FUNDB
      Brokerage - IRA 
          Mutual Funds                  FUNDA                  FUNDB
      Brokerage - Spouse IRA            Mutual Funds                  FUNDA                  FUNDB
            To create that I need to use the Security Editor to createthen for each created fund, create multiple sub-accounts for each brokerage account that holds that fund.
I think I need the separate sub-accounts so I can do reports that sub-total share count and value based on the fund name, but it seems like a lot of editing. Also creating all these sub-accounts seems like over time will make the account list very difficult to scroll through to select accounts for source/destinations of future transactions.
Any guidance in how to set this up, or pointers on where to read up more on this would be appreciated.Thanks,
Dave
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