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If you have already started to keep your double-entry accounting in another file, you can easily enhance to to use the portfolio functionalities.
Add Items table and Transactions columns
If your file does not have already:
- Add the Items Table and Transactions columns .
You will then enter your securities and divide them into categories as in the example.
Complete the fields by entering all the information about your securities. - Transactions table
Make sure that you display the Items column in the Transactions table, go to the Data->Display Columns menu and check the "ItemsId" column.
Adjusting the Chart of Accounts
Adapt your chart of accounts by inserting accounts for securities transactions.
In case you have started with an income and expenses, you will first have to convert your current file into a new "Double-entry accounting" file, for more information visit our Convert to new file page.
Change the Decimal Precision for Unit Price
Accounting files have a default Unit Price precision of 4 decimal. We provide a command that let you increase the number of decimal places so that you can have prices with a bigger number of decimals,
The Tools > Add/Remove functionalities > Change Unit Price Decimal Places.