Recording dividends

Andrew Sackville-West andrew at farwestbilliards.com
Tue Mar 29 18:48:09 EST 2005



Morris Walton wrote:
> ok, yeah it looks like the last character is missing:
> 
> MDIVIDEND RECEIVED
> ^            <--------missing

oh yeah, duh.

alright I imported the example and seems to work fine for me, just click 
on the "GnuCash account" and it will pop-up a winow to select the 
account to map to. It let me pick accounts and everything and when done 
had recorded income to account Income:dividends and increased 
Asset:Investments appropriately.
> 
> 
> wonder why they default to "Dividends" in the code, but recommend
> using "Income" in the documentation?

probably a feature ;-)

Andrew

> 
> 
> Morris
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> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:19:27 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West
> <andrew at farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>Morris Walton wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have reviewed the gnucash documentation, and I have googled for info
>>>on how to "fix" this - I must not be getting it right.
>>>
>>>Every time I try to import a qif file dividend transaction (which I
>>>have many, many, to do), the software tries to make a root account
>>>"Dividends"  How can I tailor my qif file in order to put this
>>>transaction in an "Income" subaccount?  The "L" tag doesn't seem to do
>>>the trick - i have tried that too.
>>
>>Can't you just select the account you want to map to? In the qif import
>>screen it shows all the accounts it finds in the .qif file and a list of
>>corresponding Gnucash accounts and then a green checkmark showing if its
>>a new account to be created. Just click on the name of the new account
>>and an account selection window will pop-up allowing you to pick which
>>account to map to. You can then select your Income:Dividends account and
>>you shold be good to go. I believe it also memorizes that mapping for
>>future imports.
>>
>>FYI I tried to import that example you provided and it did nothing... is
>>something missing from it?
>>
>>Andrew
>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>example qif file:
>>>
>>>!Account
>>>NAssets:Investments:retirement:Kelly Rollover IRA
>>>TInvst
>>>^
>>>!Type:Invst
>>>D12/31/2004
>>>NDiv
>>>YFTHRX
>>>I
>>>Q
>>>Cc
>>>U00000000000003.1700
>>>T00000000000003.1700
>>>MDIVIDEND RECEIVED
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>>
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