Hi, Would this video in youtube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWjdy-_G2cU> help ?
Regards, Subramanian V. On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:03 AM David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
