Hello,

Firstly, I wanted to compliment you on this brilliant project (and your 
excellent documentation in particular on double-entry accounting, useful 
particularly for people already working in technical fields). I had a 
question about balance assertions for investment accounts. Specifically, 
suppose I have the following two (and only two transactions) for Fidelity:

Assets:US:Fidelity:SPAXX   10 USD
Assets:US:Fidelity:FNILX 20 USD

I would like to do a balance assertion on the sum of these accounts in 
time, i.e.

2020-01-01 balance Assets:US:Fidelity 30 USD

rather than asserting the balance of each individual sub-account (my 
reasons for this have to do with parsing html statements from Fidelity, 
which can be real pain if you are parsing via sub-account, but pretty 
straight-forward if parsing the total account amounts). 

What are your suggestions for best going about this? I could always 
mirror-log a transaction to the combined Assets:US:Fidelity account 
whenever I log the same transaction to a subaccount, but that seems a bit 
cumbersome (and I would have to balance the transaction via a negative 
amount to some Expense account created for this purpose, which strikes me 
as inelegant).

Any suggestions are welcome :). Thanks again for your work.

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