Reinvested Dividends and Cost Calculation

[Derek Atkins]

Allen Ziegenfus <listmail at allenz.net> writes:

> On the fine day of Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:11:35 -0400
> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> said very eloquently:
>
>> Ahh, I see..  The "action"..  Yea, I suppose you could use these,
>> but there's nothing that forces a user to set this.  So.. It's not
>> guaranteed to work.
>> 
>> I'd still suggest going with Income.  Or make an option to choose
>> whether to use income-account or action field to detect the type of
>> transaction.
>> 
>
> So is the action flag not used at all, then? 

At this point no, it's not used at all.  It's there only to aid
the user if they want, but nothing depends on the value in that
field.

> Thanks for your help / suggestions. I'll take a crack at this when I get
> some time.

Cool.

> Allen

-derek

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