1. The fund account number is the trading account opened by the customer in the fund company. Every time you purchase or subscribe for a fund of a fund company, you must first open a fund account of the fund company for fund management transaction settlement. Simply put, it is to put fund shares.

Fund account.

Fund accounts are divided into fund trading accounts and fund TA accounts. Generally speaking, the fund account (fund account number) refers to the fund TA account. Fund trading account is an account set up by the bank for investors to conduct fund trading in the bank. The fund TA account is the fund account number of a fund management company held by investors. If investors buy the fund of the same company in different banks, there will be multiple trading accounts, but there will always be only one TA account. So we can say that the trading account is related to the bank, and the TA account is related to the fund company.

2.fund, in English, refers to a certain amount of funds set up for a certain purpose. It mainly includes trust and investment funds, provident funds, insurance funds, retirement funds and funds of various foundations.

From the accounting point of view, capital is a narrow concept, which refers to funds with specific purposes and uses. The fund we are talking about mainly refers to the securities investment fund. According to different standards, securities investment funds can be divided into different types:

(1) According to whether the fund unit can be increased or redeemed, it can be divided into open-end funds and closed-end funds. Open-end funds are not traded on the market (as the case may be), but are purchased and redeemed by banks, brokers and fund companies, and the fund scale is not fixed; Closed-end funds have a fixed duration and are generally listed and traded on the stock exchange. Investors buy and sell fund shares through the secondary market.

(2) According to different organizational forms, it can be divided into corporate funds and contractual funds. A fund is established by issuing fund shares to establish an investment fund company, which is usually called a corporate fund; The establishment of fund managers, fund custodians and investors through fund contracts is usually called contractual funds. China's securities investment funds are all contractual funds.

(3) According to different investment risks and returns, it can be divided into growth funds, income funds and balanced funds.

(4) According to different investment objects, it can be divided into stock funds, bond funds, money market funds and futures funds.