Tracking cash dividends with advanced portfolio

[Chris Good]

Hi Daniel,

Good point.
I'm sure it would be much appreciated if you updated that part of the documentation too.

Regards,

Chris Good

> On 4 May 2014, at 11:03 pm, Daniel Dodson <daniel.dodson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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.