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

[Subramanian Venkateswaran]

Hi,

Would this video in youtube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWjdy-_G2cU>
help ?

Regards,
Subramanian V.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:03 AM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
wrote:

> David,
>
> I was/am unsure by what you mean by "connecting" a dividend to a stock or
> in
> Art's case an interest payment to the asset it derives from.  One could
> establish a connection in a number of ways( using the description fields
> for
> example but this would not be followable). Are you thinking of something
> like the way invoices and payments are linked in the business features
> which
> you could use to identify the stock from which the dividend was produced?
>
> There is no facility at present in the transaction data structure in
> GnuCash
> to do this. It could possibly be done by adding a KVP to the transaction
> structure which identified  the stock in some way where the transaction
> involved a trading account but there is a lot of coding to do to provide
> the
> support for identifying the associated stock and provision of a way to
> display the relevant account.
>
> I'm not a Quicken user but looking at the Help from Quicken, they handle
> transaction creation via a number of dialogues. The Income dialogue is
> described here
> (
> https://www.quicken.com/support/how-do-i-record-income-dividend-interest-or-capital-gain
> )
> This is similar to MYOB which I used a long time ago and I think this is
> what Art was referring to. I don't know that this explicitly creates a link
> between the transaction record and the asset account in Quicken though.
>
> The other dialog they mention is Income -Reinvest which is where the
> dividend (or interest) is paidin stock addition to the asset rather than
> being received as cash or equivalent. In this case the transaction is
> explicitly linked to the asset as the asset account is the target of the
> debit component of the transaction.
>
> I do understand the complication of using income sub-account and being left
> with orphan account when the stock is sold for example. I only use income
> subaccounts myself with a few long term blue chip  stock holdings that I
> don't actively trade in but have held for a long time.
>
> David Cousens
>
>
>
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