Tracking dividends by stock in reports
Chris Szilagyi
chris at apex-internet.com
Sat May 9 08:30:39 EDT 2015
Thanks for the reply.
> I'm not sure what you mean by "switch over to the individual stock
> accounts one at a time, and add the extra split". You can enter it
> all from a single register as a transaction with three splits. It's
> probably easiest to enter the transactions from a register for the
> account receiving the money, probably the broker account.
>
OK got it, I did not realize that the entries could be added in one
single place, but using the register makes sense, thanks.
> That said, there is an alternative that makes the dummy split
> unnecessary in some circumstances, if you're running a new enough
> version of GnuCash. See
> <http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/report-assets.html>
> for more information.
This is exactly what I was looking for. I was reading the docs, and
trying to see if I could get it to work but I realized I'm only on
GnuCash 2.6.3, so it didn't seem to be working. Just curious though, in
my case I have a structure similar to this:
Assets:Broker A:Widget Stock
Income:Dividends:Broker A:Widget Stock
Assets:Broker B:Widget Stock
Income:Dividends:Broker A:Widget Stock
Where the stock is the same one but held in two different broker
accounts. Will this new way work? And if not is there a way to edit
the report to make it work?
Thanks again for your help.
--
Chris
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