I invest for income, taking my collected dividends quarterly and transferring them into my checking account.
A brokerage account will automatically put all loose cash into a money market fund. I look at this fund as cash, it's a major source of my income. When I define the security (e.g., Vanguard Prime Money Market: Type = Money Market, Asset class = Cash) I want to look at it as cash.
Yet in the ledger for that account, at the bottom of the page, it shows "Security Value", "Cash Balance" and "Total Market Value". The Cash Balance is ALWAYS 0, because the money has been put into a security (the money market fund). I'd like to track that cash better (for obvious reasons; it's money in my pocket). Is there something I can do in the definition of Vanguard Prime Money Market, or elsewhere, so when it shows "Cash Balance" on the ledger it actually shows the Money Market + Cash balance?