Converting IRA to Roth IRA

I don't think the security is involved. The only time I can think of, offhand, when the security might matter is in a conversion from a 401k account where the security held was an institutional version of an otherwise publicly traded security. I believe it's the account that matters in your situation.

In your case, I think the difference will be in the way your withdrawals from the Roth IRA are treated differently than the withdrawals from the traditional IRA. And I think that difference can be handled in the setting of the "Tax Attributes" for the accounts: Traditional IRA withdrawals normally being taxable (so assign them to the appropriate taxable Tax Form Line), and Roth IRA withdrawals normally being non-taxable (so if they are reportable, find a non-taxable Tax Form Line for them, otherwise, I think, leave the Tax Form line blank) .

It appears that I misinterpreted the op's question.

I believe that Quicken "Investing goals" are designed to reflect the investing goals of the issuer of the security. The investing goals of a security do not change just because the security is held in a different type of account. That is why the "Investing Goal" is assigned to the security; not to an account or a transaction.

That is: it does not matter whether one holds a specific bond fund in a taxable brokerage account, a tax-deferred traditional IRA account, a tax-free Roth IRA account, a college savings account, a trust fund ... or anywhere else. The "investing goal" of the bond fund remains the goal stated by the issurer of the fund in their prospectus.

What I'd like to accomplish is to see, in the Investment Center of Quicken, results sorted into categories such as "Investment", "IRA", "Roth IRA", "Keogh", "Tax Free", "Other Retirement", etc.

I had tried to use "Investment Goal" as the variable that would make this categorization, but moving some of FLPSX from an IRA to a Roth IRA lost the ability, as Investment Goal is, as John points out, tied to the stock, not to the account.

Is there some way to categorize ACCOUNTS so the >John Pollard wrote:

Try prefixing the account names with short text that does the "categorizing" when the accounts are in alphabetical sequence. Prefix each Roth IRA with "Roth" for example.