Louise, Income tax implications can affect how you wish to do your accounting...
What income tax laws are you subject to? USA? My knowledge is only of USA tax laws. If you are in the USA, then is this account in a Traditional IRA, Roth IRA, 401(k), or other tax deferred account? Or not in a tax deferred account? It boils down to whether you need to have your accounting system contain the information for completing the income tax forms regarding capital gains. Ken ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 3 May 2026 15:36:14 -0600 From: Louise<[email protected]> To: GnuCash Mailing List<[email protected]> Subject: [GNC] Do I treat a managed investment account as stocks, or no? Message-ID:<[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed I have a managed investment account where I deposit funds monthly, and someone, or AI, decides what stocks to buy. So far, in GnuCash, I have just been transferring my deposits to the appropriate account. When the dividends are paid out I have simple been allocating the amounts to a plain account per stock. Should I be treating these "purchases" as stocks, or is this not necessary? Thanks, Louise. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
