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

[Ken Farley]

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...