Advanced Portfolio Report

[Richard Ullger]

On 28/01/14 03:45, Alun Champion wrote:
> I assume the £2.48 would be the remainder of the dividend, when a
> whole number of shares are purchased at the market price.

That's right.

> My experience of these has been as 2 separate transactions sometimes
> separated by a number of days. So surprised to see them recorded as a
> single transaction. I think it was originally mentioned it was a way
> to get the income into the advanced portfolio report. The alternative
> would have been to keep them as 2 separate transactions and add any
> empty split to Stock Account on the dividend (Income -> Cash)
> transaction, which is my preferred method.

 That didn't work when I started using the report, which is why I record
the income as a split of the purchase. But that method does work in the
latest version of the report.

Richard.