I want to start tracking my TIAA retirement portfolio for informational purposes (no reporting needs, filings, etc.) but I need some suggestions on structuring the account trees so that it doesn't affect my existing accounts. However, possibly later I'll edit things so that the paycheck contributions are directed accordingly so I'd want the new accounts to allow that eventually (i.e. for now I'll add contributions manually using a virtual source and eventually go back through and move those to withdraw from my paycheck, the amount withheld is already accounted)
The trick with my TIAA portfolio is that it has three different products within it. Two of them are TIAA funds (one of the lifecycle multi-asset funds) that does not have a breakdown of the individual holdings (like a mutual fund). These two only document the employer contributions, my contributions, shares and interest/dividends. The third product is a TIAA mutual fund for which the individual holdings are broken out with all the same data as a typical mutual fund (shares, prices, etc.) What I expect to have is some type of top-level account that tracks the overall value of the portfolio in dollars and then either within that or somewhere nearby an account or account tree for each of the three products. At first I had considered just making the two TIAA funds into an account that was basically a mutual fund with a single holding but I wasn't quite sure how to combine that with the one real mutual fund when each of the three funds receives different amounts of contributions and individual dividends. Perhaps it would be a top-level account then three sub-accounts that are all mutual funds with two of them having one holding and the last is the broken out holding? I don't plan on using this for any official reporting (I get those documents already), and I don't plan on downloading statements, quotes, or anything else. I'll just manually track things as my statements come in and I enter the data from those, perhaps updating symbol share prices manually if I'm interested at a particular time. I don't currently use much reporting as is with my existing accounts except an occasional cash flow report so as long as that isn't affected I'm fine. I do currently have a mutual fund being tracked so I want to be careful not to cause trouble for that either. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
