balance sheet problem due to dividend reinvestment

[Robert Ramsdell]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 21:33 -0700, TRunner wrote:
> No split in this transaction, just shares / price / buy for the total amount,
> from Income:Dividend.
> 
> e.g.
> Buy Income:Dividend:Non-taxable  Shares: 7.757  Price: 22.1606  Buy
> 171.90
> 
> 
> Then when I sell the fund, I also follow then instructions in the
> guide to balance the transaction correctly for the total number of
> shares I have and in this case a capital loss.  While this sell
> transaction balances fine and it zeroes out the account balance and
> shares, my balance sheet is now off by the exact amount of the
> dividend reinvestment.  How do I resolve this?  Do I need to account
> for the initial dividend reinvestment differently, and if so, how?

Just to confirm, when you sold did you create two transactions:

sell assets:acountforproceeds Shares:7.757 Price: 20 Sell:155.14

and 

Loss income:realized gains Sell: 16.76

Frankly I have the same problem with my balance sheet being off.

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