I looked at most of the archives, and I didn't see much mention of how
stock dividends would fit into the GnuCash framework. There was some
mention in the QIF import html file, but that just acknowledged the
problem. I was thinking that I would like to implement a Return On
Investment report, but to do that you need to keep track of dividends and
capital gains for a particular security. Has there been any thought of
how to implement dividends? It seems that such a feature will be
necessary in order to completely keep track of personal finance.
One could hack in a temporary fix by having an account
Income:Dividends:Security_Name and having all dividends that come from
Security_Name be counted against that security, but then you run into
problems if you have the same security in two different accounts (not
inconceivable).
Another solution might be to have a "Dividends" subaccount for every
mutual fund and stock. But then for convenience of reporting, you might
want those "Dividends" subaccounts to be also subaccounts off of:
Income:Dividends
This would ruin the tree structure of the accounts hierarchy.
Does anyone have any good solutions for this which aren't messy? Am I
missing something obvious here?
Patrick Baker
PS The program is great. I got so annoyed with Quicken that I
contemplated going back to MYM11 under dosemu, but then I found GnuCash
could do most of what I need, and under Linux to boot!
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