Advanced Portfolio Report

[Alun Champion]

I assume the £2.48 would be the remainder of the dividend, when a
whole number of shares are purchased at the market price.
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.

On 27 January 2014 20:13, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for the report. See comments below.
>
> --On January 28, 2014 12:33:09 AM +0000 Richard Ullger <rullger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> In previous versions of the report, brokerage was not taken into
>> account in the Realised Gain column. The 'Ignore brokerage fees when
>> calculating returns' setting determines whether the brokerage column
>> is displayed and the figure taken into account in the Total Return
>> column.
>
>
> Let's see if I understand this correctly.  You would like brokerage fees to
> be always excluded from realized gains, but included in total return if the
> ignore option is not selected, is that right?  I wasn't aware that I had
> changed this, but perhaps I did accidentally.
>
> The ignore option removes them from both realized gains and (hence) from
> total return.  I think changing it the way you suggest would annoy US users
> since US tax law says that brokerage fees are added to your basis when
> calculating gain.  I guess I could add a new option to control this, but the
> report is complicated already.
>
>>
>> If income of say 374.92 is entered in the stock account with one blank
>> split line tying the income to the stock account, that income is
>> correctly recorded on the report. For example,
>>
>> Acc             Tot Buy         Tot Sell
>> Stock Account                                   (Blank split)
>> Income                  374.92
>> Cash            374.92
>>
>> If the income is entered as a split of a dividend reinvestment where
>> you have a stock purchase, the income recorded on the report is the
>> consideration of 366.95 instead of the actual income of 374.92. For
>> example,
>>
>> Acc             Tot Buy         Tot Sell
>> Stock Account   366.95
>> Commission      3.66
>> Stamp Duty      1.83
>> Cash                            372.44
>> Income                  374.92
>> Cash            374.92
>>
>> The reason I have been recording income as a split of the reinvestment
>> is because when I first started using the report some years ago, this
>> was the only way that income would be included on the report.
>
>
> There is a bug in the way reinvested dividends are handled.  Someone else
> gave me a test file that demonstrates it and I'll try to fix it in the next
> day or two.
>
> On the other hand, I'm not sure I understand that last transaction. What are
> the two cash splits for?  Are they in the same account?  I would have
> expected the stock buy to be for 369.43 (374.92-1.83-3.66). Somehow 2.48
> disappeared into the cash account.  The changes I was planning to make would
> show this as 366,95 reinvested dividends and 2.48 other income.  Is this
> what you want?
>
>         Mike
>
>
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