> 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 thing you could do is use the 'Action' field in double
line mode to mark the transaction as being a Dividend (there is
a choice 'Div' in the popup menu for that purpose. Then it wouldn't
matter what Income account you used to transfer from.
dave
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