Investment Accounts
Creating an investment account
- Add a new account and choose the Investment type.
- Configure the standard account options and save the account.
Adding an investment transaction
- Select your investment account and click the "+" button in the Item Editor or open Action > Add Transaction.
- Configure the following options to match the details of your investment transaction:
- Category: Investment categories come from the same selection as the usual ones. Create new categories if required.
- Type: In addition to the usual expense, income, and transfer types, investment transactions have three other types: dividend, buy, and sell.
- Security: Each security usually has 1 to 5 letters, used to identify it on an exchange. To save your time, a list of your currently owned securities will appear. If you do not own this security yet, enter the symbol manually, and it will appear in the Portfolio list.
- Shares: Number of shares.
- Price: Price per share.
- Commission: The amount of commission paid or earned.
- Date: Date of the transaction.
- Payee
- Notes
- Add Attachment
- Select "Show More Info" for the following options:
- Transaction No.
- Label
- Tags
Editing an investment account
- Select the investment account with settings you want to change.
- Right-click on the account name or go to Accounts, and select Edit Account.
- The Edit Account window will appear, and you can edit details for the account.
When dealing with investment accounts, you need to be aware of the following two balances.
- Cash value: Reflects the amount of cash in your brokerage account. In most cases, cash is not actually held in your brokerage account for a long period. It is either spent to purchase securities or transferred into your bank account. Therefore, you must track each of these transactions to keep the balance accurate. The cash value of your investment account is displayed as Balance in the Workspace and next to the account name in the Library.
- Market value: Reflects the approximate worth of your portfolio, based on quotes for all the securities you are currently holding. The market value of your investment account is displayed next to the Portfolio name in the Manage Bar.