[GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale

[David Carlson]

You need to use nouns instead of pronouns

On Tue, Sep 6, 2022, 8:44 PM Jack Frillman <jcf_m_lists at me.com> wrote:

> What ever what that is.
>
> On 9/6/22 7:38 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>
> Some DRIPS work that way
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2022, 6:17 PM Jack Frillman <jcf_m_lists at me.com> wrote:
>
>> Cash of course.
>> How can you reinvest in something you no longer have?
>>
>> ——
>> I smell carrots a-cooking and where there’s carrots, there’s a rabbit.
>> — Yosemite Sam
>>
>> On Sep 6, 2022, at 7:04 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Jack,
>> John Ralls asked whether you received shares or cash.  It makes a
>> difference.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 4:30 PM John Layman <
>> john.layman at laymanandlayman.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've had the same situation, but did add a zero-share split to the closed
>>> account.  One side was a deposit to the brokerage core account, the
>>> other to
>>> Income:Dividends:Tax-Advantaged.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+john.layman=
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>>> On Behalf Of Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
>>> Sent: Monday, September 5, 2022 1:13 PM
>>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Mutual Fund Dividend After Sale
>>>
>>> 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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