Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Consider this: I have an investment account which I put money into
> monthly. In turn, money in the investment account is used to purchase
> mutual funds and stock. To keep track of this, I transfer money into
> the parent account which then uses additional transactions to purchase
> funds/stock. In addition, the investment account may maintain a cash
> balance.
>
> This is a case where I need to have transactions in parent accounts.
If you look at your statements you'll find the cash balances are displayed in
a separate "cash" account as if it were just another security or investment.
In fact you can have several different ways of storing cash in an investment
account -- Money Market funds, different currency accounts, etc.
Storing transactions in the investment account directly will only cause you
headaches if later you want to have multiple cash accounts within the
investment account. It will also be a pain if you ever want to see what the
totals are for all your non-cash accounts or for your cash accounts without
including non-cash accounts.
In fact I would argue storing transactions in a non-leaf account is pretty
much always a bad idea. It may be too late but really it would have been
simpler to have only transaction accounts and rollup accounts, and not have to
deal with transactions and subbaccounts in the same account. It would also
make the interface simpler to explain and manipulate, "you have accounts and
you can group them together".
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greg
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