[GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale

[Jack Frillman]

No I didn't delete the account?
Why would I do silly thing like that and lose all that history?

The account is hidden because it's balance is 0.

Reappearing means exactly what it says.
I was no longer in the account tree, i.e. list, because after the sale 
it's balance became 0. No matter how I record that late dividend the 
balance becomes non 0 and the account reappears in the account tree or list.

I don't under stand the last part.

On 9/5/22 12:59 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> You deleted the account holding the fund after selling it?
>
> Otherwise, and unless you marked it 'hidden' it will always be there. 
> Having activity in it doesn't change that. But you wouldn't have 
> activity in it anyway from a dividend.
>
> What *exactly* do you mean by 'reappearing in my account list' and by 
> 'screwing everything else up'?
>
> A Dividend receipt would normally be between some asset account 
> ('bank' or a brokerage cash account if direct deposit, 'undeposited 
> funds' if by paper check) according to how you received the money, and 
> an Income/Revenue account, say 'Dividends Received'. The FundXYZ 
> account shouldn't be touched at all.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 9/5/22 11:41 AM, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote:
>> Last month I sold a mutual fund say XYZ.
>> Several weeks after the sale closed and the calendar date went into 
>> the next quarter I received a dividend from XYZ.
>> How do I enter that dividend transaction for XYZ without having it 
>> reappearing in my account list and screwing everything else up?
>
>
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