[GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale

[john]

> On Sep 5, 2022, at 4:05 PM, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
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> On 9/5/22 3:09 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> On Sep 5, 2022, at 10:32 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
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>>> On 9/5/22 12:13 PM, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote:
>>>> 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 didn't think you deleted it, but wasn't sure what was going on.
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>>> I can set an account with a non-zero balance to 'hidden' and it stays that way, even with subsequent activity. I can set it to hidden with a zero balance, add another transaction to make it non-zero, and it stays hidden. I'm not sure why your account is showing up.
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>>> Did you by chance set a View filter on your Accounts tab that would affect this?
>>>> I don't under stand the last part.
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>>>>> 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.
>>> As it states, 'normally' a dividend transaction doesn't involve the fund/stock at all. It is a separate transaction between asset & income accounts. Though David just informed me that there may be times you might record it there, which I had not thought of.
>> In both cases you record an empty split to the stock account. That doesn't change the account's balance and therefore won't unhide it from the Accounts page.
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> And how do I do that?

See https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/invest-dividends1.html#invest-dividendcash.

Did you have dividend reinvestments turned on? Were you posting dividends the way that the next section, Dividends Reinvested, recommends? Was that last post-sale dividend reinvested so that you had to do a second sale?

Regards,
John Ralls