Stock Splits, Stock Dividends, Mergers, etc.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Carlson" <wwc@wwcnet.nu>
To: <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 2:44 PM
Subject: Stock Splits, Stock Dividends, Mergers, etc.


> Hi,
> I've been playing around with how to enter stock
> transactions like splits, stock dividends, mergers, etc.
> After much trying, I think the most logical way of handling
> these is to have a zero price transaction in which you
> buy (or sell) some number of shares as reflected by
> the stock dividend.  For example, if I owned 50 shares
> of ABC corp which gave a stock dividend of 25 shares,
> (3-for-2 split), my stock account for abc would look like
>
In Germany, stock splits/merges usually involve a change in the so called
WKN (Wertpapierkennummer, Security ID Number).

I think we should store such numbers, too, and implement special functions
for such things as splits, merges, dividends, etc.

Jens