[GNC] How-to question: CD Interest payments deposited in

[Dale Alspach]

For my purposes I find it sufficient to embed the source in the
description. With mutual funds and stocks I can use the symbol or part of
the name, e.g., OAKIX dividend. For CDs an identifier would need to be
constructed from the bank name and an identifier for the particular CD.

One could create subaccounts of the income accounts for the sources but
this seems messy. Every time something is sold a dormant account would be
left behind.

Dale

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 12:23 AM David T. via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org wrote:

>
> Adrien (and Dale and David),
> Each of you correctly suggests a transaction from an income account to the
> checking account.
> However, I suspect that underlying Art's question is the idea that this
> transaction will not have any connection to the original CD account. When
> he calls up the CD register, none of the interest information will show.
> I see a similar circumstance with stock dividends; the dividends are paid
> into a brokerage cash account from an income account, but there's nothing
> in the stock register to show the dividends.
> I've often wondered whether adding an empty anchor split to the
> transaction (so that the dividend would show in the stock account as well)
> would be an improvement or help, or whether it would just screw things up.
> David
>
>   On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 10:49, Adrien Monteleone<
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:   Art,
>
> Welcome to GnuCash!
>
> Someone more familiar with your exact scenario can help you better, but do
> you need to record the interest in the CD account at all?
>
> Unless there is a time delay between when it is earned and deposited I’d
> just record the transaction between an income account and the checking
> account. If there is a time delay, you could hold it temporarily in the CD,
> but you could also use some other holding account like an undeposited funds
> asset account which can also be used for checks received but not yet cashed
> or deposited.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Feb 18, 2019, at 9:04 PM, Art Chimes <arts.online at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have been trying to learn GnuCash for several months now, and I am
> > apparently dumber than I thought. I am pretty good at keeping my checking
> > account, but I find more complex actions more challenging.
> >
> > For example, I bought a CD (cert. of deposit) last year, and it resides
> in
> > my brokerage account. Each month it pays me a small amount of interest,
> > which is automatically deposited in my checking account. When the CD
> > matures I will get my original money back.
> >
> > As I learn GnuCash I am still using Quicken (Q 2000!) and in that program
> > it is a simple matter there to record the interest+transfer event as an
> > IntIncX (interest income transfer) transaction. But I am stymied in an
> > effort to correctly record this kind of transaction in GnuCash.
> >
> > I have searched GnuCash resources extensively but I keep getting sent
> back
> > to an unhelpful example in which the earnings accrue to the CD, to be
> paid
> > out at the end of the term. (e.g.
> > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/invest_int1.html)
> >
> > Do I create a split transaction that shows the interest income increasing
> > the value of the CD's asset account and simultaneously being transferred
> to
> > the checking account? I tried this without success, but I am still pretty
> > rocky with splits.
> >
> > I imagine the procedure is analogous to handling period bond interest
> > payments, or mutual fund dividends, etc., but again I am apparently not
> > smart enough to find resources that I can use. (It seems the
> documentation
> > — like in Quicken — is not very robust for fixed-income investments.
> >
> > I really want to move away from Quicken, but right now I am maintaining
> > parallel sets of books as I try to get comfortable with GnuCash. Thank
> you
> > for any help you can provide.
> >
> > Art
> >
> > PS - I'm a noobie ... please be gentle!
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