[GNC] Single mutual fund held in multiple accounts in

2022-01-09 Thread Kalpesh Patel
then will be more like point & click rather than typing in for both transactions and securities if encountered for first time. Message: 5 Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2022 14:34:32 -0600 From: William Prescott To: GnuCash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] Single mutual fund held in multiple account

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

2022-01-09 Thread Kalpesh Patel
Dave - I have set it up to what Will has shown except that I have one additional level of hierarchy where I differentiate between brokerage account (wholesale marts) versus mutual funds (original mutual fund issuers) and then use the lowest level parent of it as the "cash" account. The "cash" a

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

2022-01-08 Thread 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 i

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

2022-01-08 Thread dave_k90--- via gnucash-user
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 o

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

2022-01-08 Thread William Prescott
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 i

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

2022-01-08 Thread William Prescott
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

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

2022-01-08 Thread dave_k90--- via gnucash-user
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 s