Thanks for the explanation. The accounts were already set up and funded
from a (cash) bank account under Assets:Current Assets. I have set up
the gains in income accounts as you suggest, but they are generic income
accounts (in different currencies under
Income:Common:Investment:Capital), not
If your managed funds were in existence at the opening of your GnuCash books,
the the appropriate account will be an Equity account and Opening Balances
is an appropriate subaccount. If not then whatever account the funds came
from to setup the investment. You will need to account for any fees etc
account (assuming that I have capital gains), an expense
account (in the event that I have losses) or an equity account?
From: David Carlson
Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 3:32 PM
To: rsbrux
Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] How to Handle Managed Securities Accounts in GnuCash
There used to be a section in one of the help manuals about tracking the
value of fixed investments such as art. I am not near my computer so I am
working from memory.
You could create such an asset for that account and then update it's value
quarterly or less as you please, following the
I have a couple of managed securities accounts which typically have a lot of
transactions involving switching in and out of proprietary ETFs for which
public quotes are not readily available.
I am tired of trying to keep track of all of these transactions in GnuCash.
I would be grateful for any
