How to enter dividends?

[Derek Atkins]

Jon Lapham <lapham at extracta.com.br> writes:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
> > That's fine.  You could add something to the affect of:
> > If you need to track dividends on a per-stock basis, you would need
> > to
> > create an Income:Dividends:<Stock> account for each stock you own that
> > pays dividends.
> >
> 
> 
> It is really only important for cash dividend payments, right?
> Reinvested dividends are tracked right in the stock account.

Well, it depends -- just looking at the stock account it's hard
to tell which is a dividend reinvenstment and which is a
puchase of new shares.

> I added your text to the cash payment paragraph.
> 
> But, thinking about this a bit, for the case of cash dividends,
> couldn't this "per-stock" summary be done with a report?  We could
> have a report in which you choose the Dividend income account, and it
> finds common "Description"s and creates a summary?

That presumes you type the descriptions exactly the same every time...

> Or is that more trouble than it is worth?
> 
> PS: yeah, I know, stock investments don't really work yet... not until
> lots are implimented...

-derek

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