good to know and very unfortunate.

thanks for your help.

take care,  fred

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> On Mar 17, 2022, at 12:50 PM, <davidvernonl...@gmail.com> 
> <davidvernonl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>   2.  Question about Assemblies (Frederick)
> There is no inventory accounting in GnuCash, so if you need to hold parts in
> inventory in numbers of units together with their cost per until, whether on
> average cost or on FIFO basis, which then build assemblies, I cannot see how
> this would be possible.
> David
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>   1. Re:  IRA/401K income detection (Michael or Penny Novack)
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> From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepf...@comcast.net>
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> On 3/16/2022 8:49 PM, D. wrote:
>> Michael,
>> 
>> I think I get what you're saying. In my own case, I've taken to 
>> separating the pretax streams into their own income accounts, which 
>> seemingly addresses some of your points.
>> 
>> But one of the big selling points of IRA/401Ks is that they earn money 
>> tax deferred (which I've also isolated into their own income 
>> accounts). How does Joe allocate the distributions-- or does it even 
>> matter? Each distribution is going to include a portion of deferred 
>> income and a portion of untaxed dividends (at least how I've captured 
>> the txns thus far). Is there a different way to manage those dividends?
> 
> 
> If the contributions are all "pre-tax" then they are "deferred income" . 
> The "deferred income" account would have been used when you entered the
> transaction for a contribution.
> 
> What the account has earned is also all "deferred income". If you were
> entering transactions to record the increase in value of your 401K, that
> would have been the other side of the transaction. Note that it is "deferred
> ordinary income? and not "deferred capital gains"
> 
> If the 401k existed before you began with gnucash, the probable cause was
> entering the starting balance using the "tool" (so other side "starting
> equity"). It should have been "deferred income" << you could still use the
> tool -- when you created "deferred income" (probably under
> equity) with the same starting value that would have taken it out of
> "starting equity". Understand? Yes "deferred income" is part of your equity
> but it is different than your other equity because it has an attached tax
> liability.
> 
> Michael D Novack
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> PS? --- Bears repeating, but a "manual" is not a "user guide". We really
> should not be advising users about things like this. In other words, the
> question isn't "how do I enter transactions related to a 401k" but "what
> accounts, what transactions, would I be using when accounting for a 401k".
> That's for a tax accountant to tell you, or you look it up. I am not legally
> qualified to answer "tax accountant" sorts of questions.
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