That’s not correct. You can create a commodity for anything you like, and BTW you can create any number of namespaces to categorize your commodities.
Yes, “commodity” is an overloaded word in English. To market traders it means futures in some physical product: Sow bellies, wheat, steel. In GnuCash it means anything that you might account for that isn’t an official (meaning recognized by the ISO 4217 committee). So, you want a namespace “Mutual Fund”? No problem. Open Tools>Security Editor. Click the Add button. Fill out the dialog box as shown in the first screenshot and click OK. On the Accounts tab click the New button and fill out the new account information, selecting either Stock or Mutual Fund for the Account Type, then click Select. If the new commodity is the only one you’ve got then that will be in the selection dialog as shown in the second screenshot. This is all explained much more thoroughly in Chapter 9 of the Tutorial and Concepts Guide: https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-guide/chapter_invest.html. See Chapter 11 for a thorough discussion of Capital Gains. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 20, 2024, at 18:52, Megan Tilley <megan.til...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have done so (created the commodity in Tools>Security Editor) however, that > process only allows "Stocks" and not a Fund... so - confusion on my part. > > I have obviously done the creation incorrectly as the 'new' list still does > not show the additions - snip of Security list and also Account list. > > As I indicated - I believe that they should be Mutual Funds... > > Commodity in Australia is a classification - a Stock fits in a Commodity > market place - Manufacturing, Property, etc.. So I think I need to add > "Property" somewhere.  _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
