(Lost the attribution; sorry): > Assets:TIAA (cash) > Assets:TIAA:Lifecycle 1 (commodity) > Assets:TIAA:Lifecycle 2 (commodity) > Assets:TIAA:TIAA Mutual Fund (commodity)
I've never heard of TIAA before, but from what's been said, I infer that an account there behaves enough like a normal investment account for what follows to make sense, i.e. that it can hold numerous securities, but can also directly hold cash. If that's so, I'd make one small change to the suggested layout: track the cash holdings in a fourth subaccount, rather than dumping them into the parent account, like so: Assets:TIAA (placeholder -- see below) Assets:TIAA:Cash (cash) Assets:TIAA:Lifecycle 1 (commodity) etc. That way you can see at a glance how much uninvested cash the TIAA account holds, while the parent Assets:TIAA GNC account shows its total value. In this scheme, you'd never enter transactions directly into Assets:TIAA, but only into its subaccounts. Turning the former into a "placeholder account" would help prevent mistakes in that regard, but is entirely optional. - Eric _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.