Tracking cash dividends with advanced portfolio

[Daniel Dodson]

I've now made a stab at updating the document. Not really happy with the
image update but I think it conveys more information than the previous
image did so will proceed with it.


On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au>wrote:

> 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.
>
>