stock split questions

[Rob Browning]

Dave Peticolas <dave@krondo.com> writes:

> Is that actually reported as a split? In the funds I have owned, you
> could elect to have your dividends used to purchase more shares, but
> that wasn't a 'split'.

As far as I recall, splits have always been reported to me by
brokerages as a single journal entry

 2001-01-12    Some company    Distribution          150.00   0.00

having a number of shares and a value of zero.  There's never any
information about what kind of split it was 2/1, or whatever.  So I'd
thought perhaps it would show up in gnucash the same way, but I could
put some annotation about whether it was 2/1 or whatever in the memo
or notes field if I wanted/remembered.

> Can mutual funds split?

Don't know.

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