Tracking cash dividends with advanced portfolio

[Daniel Dodson]

On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au>wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> The Unstable version of the Help Documentation, Chapter 9 Reports and
> Charts, Assets & Liabilities contains documentation on the Advanced
> Portfolio Report columns & options, and includes:
>
> Note
> To include income from dividends which are not reinvested:
> Ensure there is a dummy transaction split to the stock account with
> quantity
> 0 price 1 value
> 0 in the dividend transaction. You can just enter the dummy stock split
> with
> no values in
> the dividend account and it will create the transaction with price 1 even
> though you cannot
> see the Price column in that register.
> <snip>


Ah yes. Thanks for the reference Chris. I still think that on the unstable
branch (i.e. master) that the chapter in the tutorial (ch_reinvest.xml)
needs to be updated to concur with the help text.