What's your favorite year end method?

[Donald Allen]

On Dec 17, 2007 3:15 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <ajswest at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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.

I understand and no, I can't depend on dividends being reinvested in
the security in my own finances. Some are, some aren't, so I need the
pointer from dividend account to security account.

/Don

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