[GNC] Cash in investment has a "price"?

Marcus Winston marcus at thechocolatehouse.net
Sat Nov 4 12:08:17 EDT 2023


OK, following up, maybe one last time on this ....

Seems like this is a bug. It worked fine before, now it doesn't. Is 
there a way to submit a bug to the Gnucash team?

-marcus

On 10/28/23 18:50, Ken Farley wrote:
> I used to have my cash balance in the Brokerage account, but somewhere 
> along the line I found it "cleaner" (?) to use something like the 
> following structure for my various investment accounts (Brokerage, 
> IRAs, 401(k)s)
>
> *Assets*
>
> *Investments*
>
> *Brokerage Account*
>
> *      = Cash Account =   <-- an account of type "Bank"*
>
> *Security Account A  <-- Stock or Mutual Fund
> *
>
> *Security Account B  <-- Stock or Mutual Fund*
>
> *etc.
> *
>
> This structure has worked very well for me. I use the "=" characters 
> around the Cash Account name to force this account to be sorted to the 
> top of the list in the sub-accounts. When I changed the structure, I 
> did something like this:
>
> (1) Added the Bank account to hold my cash balance
>
> (2) Moved all the transactions in the top level "Brokerage Account" 
> (or whatever it is called) to this new Bank account.
>
> (3) Changed the top level Brokerage Account to be a Placeholder 
> account (to keep me from habitually entering transactions into it).
>
> It was kind of a pain to move the transactions, but that's what tea 
> and coffee are for, I suppose...
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