How to register a dividend in cash?

[Derek Atkins]

The Advanced Portfolio doesn't report dividends.

It will report reinvestment, but a dividend to cash does
not affect your portfolio.

-derek

Le Hong Boi <Le.Hong.Boi at bigfoot.com> writes:

> Hi,
> I am using GnuCash 1.8.1 on RedHat 9.0. Anyone please tell me how to
> register a dividend in cash so that it is counted in the Advanced
> Portfolio Report.
> My Account Hierachy is as below:
> 
> +--Assets
> |  |
> |  +--Investments
> |  |  |
> |  |  +--Stocks
> |  |     |
> |  |     +--CII
> |  |
> |  +--Cash
> |     |
> |     +--On-hand
> |
> +--Income
>    |
>    +--Dividends
>       |
>       +--Stocks
>          |
>          +--CII
> 
> I have some shares in Assets:Investments:Stocks:CII. On Jan 20, I got
> some amount of dividend from those share and I registered the
> transaction using two accounts Income:Dividends:Stocks:CII and
> Assets:Cash:On-hand. The Advanced Portfolio does not counts that
> dividend.
> What is the correct way to register dividend in cash so that the
> Advanced Portfolio report show it?
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> Lê 
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