David, I was/am unsure by what you mean by "connecting" a dividend to a stock or in Art's case an interest payment to the asset it derives from. One could establish a connection in a number of ways( using the description fields for example but this would not be followable). Are you thinking of something like the way invoices and payments are linked in the business features which you could use to identify the stock from which the dividend was produced?
There is no facility at present in the transaction data structure in GnuCash to do this. It could possibly be done by adding a KVP to the transaction structure which identified the stock in some way where the transaction involved a trading account but there is a lot of coding to do to provide the support for identifying the associated stock and provision of a way to display the relevant account. I'm not a Quicken user but looking at the Help from Quicken, they handle transaction creation via a number of dialogues. The Income dialogue is described here (https://www.quicken.com/support/how-do-i-record-income-dividend-interest-or-capital-gain) This is similar to MYOB which I used a long time ago and I think this is what Art was referring to. I don't know that this explicitly creates a link between the transaction record and the asset account in Quicken though. The other dialog they mention is Income -Reinvest which is where the dividend (or interest) is paidin stock addition to the asset rather than being received as cash or equivalent. In this case the transaction is explicitly linked to the asset as the asset account is the target of the debit component of the transaction. I do understand the complication of using income sub-account and being left with orphan account when the stock is sold for example. I only use income subaccounts myself with a few long term blue chip stock holdings that I don't actively trade in but have held for a long time. David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
