Khristine Ann, Gnucash is able to track the value of nearly any arbitrary stock or mutual fund portfolio, including downloading prices from the Internet as often as you care to do that, up to once a day. That detail is probably more than you need. There is a very detailed section in the Tutorial about how GnuCash can do that.
I suggest doing one of two things. Easy. Just set up a simple long term asset bank type account and every three months declare some income or expense equal to the change shown on your quarterly statement. You can still show contributions and eventually disbursements. Harder. Go to your library or community college and find an adult ed course for beginning investors. Use that knowledge to set up GnuCash to your preference. David C On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 4:43 PM, Khristine Ann Ramella <kis...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Super clueless new Gnu User seeks someone to help explain 529. I asked for > help before and was directed to various places which gave a little insight, > but not as much as I need. > > Here is what I have done: Created a Mutual Fund for 529 A and > one for 529 B—I believe I have done this right but it is open to debate > since I don’t understand a lot of the specifics required to open the > accounts (security/commodity?) Yikes! > Created a cash > account to transfer the money out of my checking. Then I went in to the > mutual fund and made the purchase out of the cash. That seemed to go well. > The info on my 529 web site/statement and the ledger of my 529 seem to add > up/match in terms of shares, price paid-HOWEVER the totals don’t add up. My > gnu total shows for example 4503 , while my account online total shows 4392 > Also, on my main gnu page instead of showing the total in each account, it > shows the shares and the account number and then the total is shown > (incorrectly as mentioned before) under mutual fund in general. > > > I have scoured the internet for videos, articles related to this and no > luck. I really don’t understand, but would like to if someone can explain > in simple terms. Open to email lessons or anything > > Many thanks > > > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows 10 > > _______________________________________________ > 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.