Re: [GNC] How is Total(period) in Account Tree intended to work for brokerage accounts?

2021-01-08 Thread David Reiser via gnucash-user
I finally understand that a transaction must occur during the period to be included. However, the unrealized gain is included for stock transactions based in the current period. The Account Tree is not a report, so it’s unclear how one might change the evaluation. But my Total(period) for the

Re: [GNC] How is Total(period) in Account Tree intended to work for brokerage accounts?

2021-01-08 Thread D. via gnucash-user
The Total(Period) column includes the value of actual transactions during the period. Changes in valuation aren't counted in this value because they are unrealized. You are seeing a number in the one account precisely because you rolled the money over from one account to another. That was an

Re: [GNC] How is Total(period) in Account Tree intended to work for brokerage accounts?

2021-01-08 Thread David Carlson
Going back to the question in the title of this thread, the Total(period) indicates the sum of all transactions for that account during the default period, which, I think, is the current year. Check your preferences on that. So the number for the brokerage account period would be the sum of

Re: [GNC] How is Total(period) in Account Tree intended to work for brokerage accounts?

2021-01-08 Thread David Carlson
What, exactly do you mean by 'real' total? On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:59 PM David Reiser wrote: > The brokerage parent is in dollars. The individual fund accounts under it > are in shares. But it’s the same setup for both the account that shows a > ‘real’ total and those that show 0.00. > -- >

Re: [GNC] How is Total(period) in Account Tree intended to work for brokerage accounts?

2021-01-08 Thread David Reiser via gnucash-user
The brokerage parent is in dollars. The individual fund accounts under it are in shares. But it’s the same setup for both the account that shows a ‘real’ total and those that show 0.00. -- Dave Reiser dbrei...@icloud.com > On Jan 8, 2021, at 2:55 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > For each

Re: [GNC] How is Total(period) in Account Tree intended to work for brokerage accounts?

2021-01-08 Thread David Carlson
For each account, is ti's value in US Dollars or is it in shares that have some US Dollar value per share?? On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:51 PM David Reiser wrote: > All security values are updated on a roughly daily basis. And since all of > my investments and other accounts are linked to USD, I

Re: [GNC] How is Total(period) in Account Tree intended to work for brokerage accounts?

2021-01-08 Thread David Carlson
Parenthetically, this year, having business holidays around calendar year-end, you need to make sure that you understand how Gnucash picks values out of the price database when designing your reports. On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:55 PM David Reiser via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:

Re: [GNC] How is Total(period) in Account Tree intended to work for brokerage accounts?

2021-01-08 Thread David Reiser via gnucash-user
All security values are updated on a roughly daily basis. And since all of my investments and other accounts are linked to USD, I still don’t see any difference between the account that reports a ‘real’ total vs. the accounts that report 0.00. -- Dave Reiser dbrei...@icloud.com > On Jan 8,

Re: [GNC] How is Total(period) in Account Tree intended to work for brokerage accounts?

2021-01-08 Thread David Carlson
David, The total value of brokerage accounts is usually zero because that number only represents the cash in the account. The securities are valued separately, usually in their share amounts. You would need to separately make sure that GnuCash has been updated with the value of each of those

[GNC] How is Total(period) in Account Tree intended to work for brokerage accounts?

2021-01-08 Thread David Reiser via gnucash-user
I have a number of brokerage-like accounts (cursed with multiple TIAA contracts…). In most cases, the Total(period) column in the account tree page lists $0.00 as that total. I did a roth conversion at the end of 2020 that resulted in the money for the conversion being moved to the new account