Importing into stock type gnucash accounts...

[Allan]

I'm stuck trying to build 2.6.8. I added to my /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic main restricted universe

But I fail at:
sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for gnucash


On 09/29/2015 09:19 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> First, check whether that is still needed for release 2.6.8.  I think 
> that the report has been fixed so that the security account split line 
> is no longer needed.  If not...
>
> A partial solution, and the one that I use is as follows. Import the 
> oldest transaction then edit it to include the extra split line for 
> the security account with zero amount. Then set one or four scheduled 
> transaction(s) from that transaction to create the rest of the 
> historical dividend transactions.  Set it to reminder type then when 
> the Since Last Transaction wants to enter them all at once change all 
> but the first few back to reminder status so that you can keep track 
> when the company changes the dividend amount.  Repeat tediously until 
> all the history is in place.  Then the import of the other account 
> transactions should work with the importer offering to match to those 
> existing dividend transactions.
>
> David C
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Allan <allanhasmail at gmail.com 
> <mailto:allanhasmail at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I did experiment with the CALC2QIF creating a dividend import with
>     something like this:
>
>     !Type:Invst
>     D04/01'15
>     U37.41
>     T37.41
>     NDIVIDEND
>     YMDU
>     I1.00
>     MMDU RESOURCES GROUP INC: CASH DIV  ON     205: AT $.1825  PER SHARE
>     LAssets:Investments:Stock
>     ^
>
>     But I see no way to get it into the various sub accounts. The
>     importer asks for a single account for the QIF.
>
>     I wonder if I could add lines like:
>
>      !Account
>     N/Account Name
>
>     /into the QIF to create the proper split...
>
>     If I could figure out the proper QIF file, it looks pretty easy to
>     modify the CALC2QIF macro. To me, CALC2QIF makes GC much more
>     useful, and this would add to that further.
>
>     Allan
>
>     On 09/29/2015 08:06 PM, David T. wrote:
>
>         Unfortunately, the CSV importer doesn’t support both sides of
>         a transaction. See:
>         http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2014-August/055921.html
>         and
>         http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2014-September/055970.html
>         for a recent discussion. There *are* numerous utilities to
>         convert CSV files to QIF, which will preserve the second
>         account. There are recent discussions on this list about some
>         of them.
>
>         I’ll note that you probably won’t be importing dividend income
>         into a stock account, since the stock account is by definition
>         denominated in shares of stock. (of course, your example might
>         be indicating a stock dividend, in which case I commend you on
>         receiving $7700 from your investment, and then I’d shut up!)
>
>         If your dividend is a dollar sum, however, usually, the
>         solution I know of is to have a currency-denominated income
>         account for dividends from which the dividends originate, and
>         a currency account to receive them. For me, I have
>         transactions from Income:Dividends going into my broker’s cash
>         account (Assets:Current Assets:Broker). When I get the
>         broker’s statement, everything balances, and I can see the
>         income at the end of the year.
>
>         David
>
>             On Sep 29, 2015, at 8:29 PM, Allan <allanhasmail at gmail.com
>             <mailto:allanhasmail at gmail.com>
>             <mailto:allanhasmail at gmail.com
>             <mailto:allanhasmail at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>
>             Is there a way to import dividends into respective GC
>             stock accounts (Asset:Stock:Symbol) from a CSV format?
>             i.e.
>             1/1/15,IBM,Asset:Stock:IBM,54.56,Income:Dividend
>
>             I read the discussion on "Importing Exported Data into Gnu
>             Cash" and this doesn't seem to allow for stock accounts
>             nor multiple accounts (both sides of a transaction in each
>             line).
>
>             I have several hundred at least transactions to get into
>             GC and more coming...
>
>             and would like to discover a faster way to enter them than
>             re-typing them.
>
>             Allan
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