Thanks Tim, that is the same as my situation and I like your solution. I am not worried about tax time as I just need to have a general idea I can use for a sort of sanity check. I will try your solution in parallel.
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Timothy B. Taylor <taylo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Roger, there may be a simpler solution. I had an investment account that > internally was kind of a mess, with various holdings that I really didn't > want to try to track individually. The reports from the investment company > were sufficient to track dividends and gains and to report taxes. I wanted > to track the overall value in that account, but I didn't want to or need to > deal with the internal ups and downs. > > So I created an asset account (type=asset) with the opening balance the > total value of the account and date shown on the most recent statement. > > Then I created an equity account called Changes in Investment Value or > something similar with an opening balance of zero. > > Periodically I add a transaction in the asset account to reflect the > accumulated changes in value since the last transaction, to make the > Gnucash account balance match the total value of the account. This > transaction is balanced against the corresponding equity account. This > makes sense to me. When my overall asset value goes up, so does my equity. > And vice versa. > > In effect I am treating this investment account as a cash account, with a > particular value on any given day, with ups and downs corresponding to the > overall value of the account. > > The result is my Gnucash net worth, balance sheet and similar reports make > sense. But of course dividends, capital gains, purchases, sales, investment > fees and similar accounts do not. At tax time I have to add the Gnucash > results to the data received from the investment company. > > I'm sure this won't pass anyone's proper-accounting test, but it seems to > work for me. Tim > > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Roger Miskowicz <rmisk...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I went through the section 9.5.3 Entering Pre-Existing Stocks for about >> the >> fifth time. Don't know what I did differently but it now works as >> expected. Before it used to crash when I tried a price update. >> >> Actually it still crashes when I click on Apply instead of Ok when editing >> a Price Entry. (I think, I need to check it out more to determine exactly >> what I am doing to cause the crash). >> >> Is there a related bug in 2.6.12? >> >> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 9:28 AM, David Carlson < >> david.carlson....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > If you want to create a fictional stock and manually enter prices from >> > time to time that is easy. >> > >> > Just use the security editor and invent a name and symbol, possibly >> under >> > the group called Fund. Do not set an online quote source. Then >> manually >> > use the price editor to enter prices for whatever dates you like. >> > >> > David C >> > >> > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 8:00 AM, Roger Miskowicz <rmisk...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> Sorry, I just want to take a number from one online brokerage report >> and >> >> manually put it into gnucash. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 6:28 AM, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Roger, >> >> > >> >> > You stay by stating that you are able to generate a report that tells >> >> you >> >> > "the current value of everything." Then, you ask how you can add >> >> another >> >> > layer of complexity to accomplish the same thing? >> >> > >> >> > I don't understand: what's wrong with the report? >> >> > >> >> > David >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 16:14, Roger Miskowicz >> >> > <rmisk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I have an Investment Account which is a collection of stocks, >> >> certificates, >> >> > cash etc in two currencies. I can get a report that tells me in my >> >> local >> >> > currency the current value of everything. >> >> > >> >> > I would like to create a stock, fund, or whatever appropriate with 1 >> >> share >> >> > for which I can manually update a single price representing the >> current >> >> > value of the entire collection. >> >> > >> >> > Using the online guide I have tried creating a fund or stock but I >> don't >> >> > understand the process and can't seem to get it to work and even >> >> > ocassionally crashing gnucash. >> >> > >> >> > I think I would like something such as: >> >> > >> >> > Investment >> >> > Stocks >> >> > myStock (I would like to manually update the price of a single >> >> share.) >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > I am using gucash 2.6.12 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. >> >> > >> >> > I would appreciate it if someone can suggest a way to do this. >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > 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. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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. >> >> >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > _______________________________________________ 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. 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