Income problems; 1.8.9

[John B. Egger]

John B. Egger wrote:
> I've just begun to learn about the P&L Report. Mine handles my expenses 
> and salary fine, but there's a problem with dividends and other 
> investment income that puzzles me. Consider a money-market account. In 
> the "Accounts" list it looks perfect, balancing with the financial 
> institution's statement, increasing with each month's dividend (entered 
> as "Dividend:Account:Security".) But when I open the P&L Report and 
> click on Dividends/Account/Security, only some of the past few months' 
> entries are shown in the "income" column (and of course only they 
> increase the dividend-income balance).
> 
> I have no idea what's different between the months that properly add to 
> both my account balance and to my dividend-income total (such as 
> 8/31/04), and those that just increase my account balance (like 
> 9/30/04). I've tried creating new test transactions (in Account/Security 
> from the Accounts window, with a "Dividend:Account:Security" of $20 
> etc., and it adds $20 to the account balance but NOTHING to dividend 
> income.
> 
> 
> --John
> Registered Linux User #291592
> 

Problem solved, I think. My "dividend" accounts were defined with 
"Commodity" as the security into which the dividend was reinvested. When 
I changed the commodity to "currency" (USD), newly entered dividends 
appeared both as additions to the account balance and as income. It DOES 
look as if I have to go back and manually re-enter 2004 dividends, 
because previous entries did not automatically appear as "income" after 
redefining the "dividend" account.

Guess everyone else was smart enough to avoid this problem, but I 
wasn't. (PS: The few months in 2004 that were OK had been imported from 
Quicken, so GnuCash handled them properly. It was my manual entries that 
were screwed up.)


-- 
--John
Registered Linux User #291592