Mutual Funds Cap Gains & Dividends Reinvestment

Aaron Gaudio prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org
Mon Aug 30 11:50:24 EDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 14:48 +0000, rwshep2000.3129421 at bloglines.com
wrote:

> Maybe
> the problem is the way I've set up and use my accounts:
> 
> Dividends:
> 
> Income:
> Dividend Income
> 
> Capital Gains:
> 
> Income: Capital_Gains_Unrealized
> Income:
> Capital_Gains_Realized
> 
> When I receive a capital gain or dividend I add
> it to the appropriate Income table.  When I reinvest the gain or dividend,
> I transfer it from the income table to the stock or fund as a buy.
> 

I believe this is similar to how GnuCash itself handles dividend re-
investments when parsing a QIF file, so the report should be able to
handle it, though I'm not particularly sure of the best logic to use.


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