> I would use placeholder accounts under some sort of Assets:Investments top > level structure to record funds whose tax treatments was different. You > could use the description/memo fields to cross reference funds transferred > between the different categories of investment as you suggest with a > searchable keyword. Using an intermediate account really doesn't add > anything unless the taxation on exit status could be maintained for those > funds on reinvestment. A transaction report where you specify the > placeholder and subaccounts for your IRA accounts in the Accounts tab and > also specify displaying the transfer account, sorted on transfer account, > date etc should give you a record of the transactions to and from the IRA > fund account(s). It can be saved as a custom user report for reuse and > exported and modified further as required. > > David Cousens > David, thanks, some of your comments were a little over my head, but I think I understand that you don’t believe I can accomplish what I want with an account - I have about come to that conclusion myself - and I should approach the problem with a Transaction Report. Unfortunately, when I reviewed the Help Manual on Reports I found it to be really heavy going. Is there somewhere I can read beginner-level Report documentation?
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