How to get stocks' total return?

[John Ralls]

On Sep 24, 2012, at 11:43 PM, risterian <en9e-60hk at dea.spamcon.org> wrote:

> risterian <en9e-60hk at dea.spamcon.org> wrote:
> 
>> Manoj Kumar <mkmetw at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Advance portfolio report will list the dividend received under "Income" column if the dividend transaction includes the stock account. Both debit and credit columns for the stock account split should be left empty.
>>> 
>>> You can also check this thread (reply of Jannick Asmus) http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Advanced-Portfolio-and-dividend-in-cash-was-How-to-register-a-dividend-in-cash-td1433051.html.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>> 
>> Thank you very much for the reply.
>> 
>> The solution at the end of bug 581191 does seem to work, I tested
>> by changing one cash dividend to be shown that way.
>> 
>> But it was tedious and error-prone to do just one, and I have 
>> hundreds.
>> 
>> Has anyone made a tool to address this?
>> 
>> What I don't get is why the GnuCash importer tore apart the 
>> dividend transactions from the stock accounts, instead of doing
>> it like this solution says.  I checked the Money QIF file for the 
>> brokerage - all the transactions are right there together.
>> 
>> There must be some reason it was done that way - what am I 
>> missing?
> 
> 
> Anyone?  No thoughts, history, clues, tools, tips on my questions?
> 
> Is it just that this problem wasn't realized originally, and 
> that's why importing doesn't do it this way?  Or is there some 
> other reason?


It's likely that whoever wrote the importer didn't know about the special structure required by the Advanced Portfolio Report.

Regards,
John Ralls