[GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale

[Jack Frillman]

On 9/5/22 11:53 PM, john wrote:
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>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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?
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> See 
> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/invest-dividends1.html#invest-dividendcash.
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> 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?
Not sure what you mean by "turned on" but the previous dividends were 
reinvested and were entered manually.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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