I put the stock symbol in the account name. Another way is to put it in metadata on the posting (or transaction, if always dedicated to the stock).
There's no best practice. So far there isn't much support for computing returns. I once had a good go at attempting to automate this for the whole set of accounts at once, and it got a little tricky. Cadavers of that experience lie here now: https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/tip/experiments/returns/ I haven't had time to get back to it, but I'd like to revisit this, with more modest aims: - IRR only, not caring about cash-adjusted returns - Computing a set of cash flows for each (account, commodity) separately - Then, building something on top of that which can combine the time-series together On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 8:45 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi ! > > I am thinking about how to track my dividend payments in order to compute the > ROI of a specific stock. > Currently a dividend is simply a trasaction from Income:Dividend to > Assets:TradingAcount:Cash , and nothing connects it to the stock that paid > this dividend. > > What would be the best practice to achieve this connection ? Link ? Hashtag ? > something else ? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/98d7be53-94b2-40d2-9c00-1ba8eb32a44d%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhPf5gD%3D2PWsBGEfx9mwB75g_2y%2B4E33%2BZvy66tbAncnPw%40mail.gmail.com.
