The totals for any account should reflect the totals of transactions to any subaccounts + the total of transactions to the account itself. I am not seeing any deviation from that behaviour in my personal accounts for superannuation funds which are also simply setup as asset accounts not as a formal invsetment account ( V3.4 on Linux Mint Tara) or in general.
Settings like Placeholder status shouldn't affect the totals, but placeholder being set for example only prevents transactions to the account once it is set as a placeholder. Any existing transactions are not necessarily removed when the placeholder status is set. That was really why i was asking about the parent account settings. This will control where the account sums to. Not sure how the account type affects summation into a parent account though. My experience is that the New Account dialog restricts your choice of the account types based on the setting of the parent account and it's type, but that that restriction may still allow some choices which should not occur formally. i haven't experimented a lot with what happens when you set an accounts type before choosing the parent account which has an incompatible type for example. But if you take a type Asset account and change its parent to an account of type Liability, the account type of that account remains as Asset and is not automatically changed to be a Liability account. If it were to be changed under such a change, you have to look carefully at how existing transactions are handled and whether they should change. That could have some interesting effects for summation into that Liability account depending upon how GnuCash is actually programmed to handle that situation. I haven't examined the code in that area but from an accounting perspective, I would expect the following behavior. An asset account which has a debit balance summing into a liability account which has a credit balance should have its total subtracted from the total of the liability account not added. I cannot think of a circumstance in formal accounting where an asset account could or should be an subaccount of a liability account or vice versa with similar restrictions on equity accounts, but GnuCash does not seem to enforce any such restrictions formally in all circumstances, at this time, particularly when the account type of an account is changed when there are existing transcactions to that account. David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.