What's your favorite year end method?

Andrew Sackville-West ajswest at mindspring.com
Mon Dec 17 15:15:50 EST 2007


On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:54:23PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2007 2:13 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <ajswest at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:24:59PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
...

> > > For dividend accounts, I also want to relate them to a commodity, so
> > > that I can show dividends received in both an unrealized and realized
> > > gains report. For that, I enter security namespace:symbol in the
> > > income account's code field, to serve as a pointer to the commodity.
> > > Again, something I can require of myself.
> >
> > I think this can already be done if you split the dividends into
> > separate sub-accounts. Then all the txn's will tie back to a specific
> > commodity and that information can be derived easily. It
> > requires the user to setup their accounts a specific way. But, as I
> > said above, it pretty much has to be that way. I think.
> 
> I do separate the dividend accounts into separate sub-accounts,
> per-brokerage and per-security. Maybe I'm missing something (hardly
> impossible), but the dividend accounts are income accounts, they live
> in the Income part of the account tree, and their commodity is
> currency. I don't know of a way to tie them to the asset (stock)
> accounts they belong to with *any* account setup, other than the
> improvised hack I came up with. But please educate me if I've got this
> wrong.

sorry, you're not missing something. I mean within gnucash, we can get
the other split of a transaction and figure out what commodity that is
to tie them together. But this only works if you reinvest those
dividends back into the same commodity.  If it's just income tied back
to another currency account, then no, you can't, so far as I know.

A
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