Actually, now that you describe it, I've had many such transactions, although 
the brokerage called them "adjustments". I've always just entered them the same 
as other dividends, with the amounts reversed. It's never caused any problems. 
⁣David T. ​

On Oct 5, 2024, 7:19 PM, at 7:19 PM, R Losey <rlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Wow. Amazing.
>
>The online articles only talk about a negative yield.
>
>On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 11:04 AM Fred Tydeman <tydeman.f...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> The actual dividend is negative.  Money is taken from my cash
>account.
>> On 9/27 a positive dividend was paid (I got money).
>> On 10/2 a negative dividend was "paid" (I had money taken from me)
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 5:57 PM R Losey <rlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> While there is such a thing as a "negative stock dividend", it is a
>term
>>> for when a company pays a dividend even though they they lost money
>-- that
>>> is, their net income was negative. This makes the dividend yield
>negative,
>>> not the actual dividend.
>>>
>>> In reality, the dividend itself is still a paid dividend, and can be
>>> entered as such... why WOULDN'T GnuCash support this?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 9:50 AM Fred Tydeman <tydeman.f...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Will Gnucash work with a stock dividend that is negative?
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