OK,
I'm having lots of fun trying to enter my portfolio and its history into
gnucash.
Buying: I figure this should be a credit from the trading account, and debits
to the stock account and the commission expense account, right? Is there an
easy way to do this? Right now, I enter the # and price and stock
account on the first line, the trading account on the second line with a buy
action and the commission expense account on the third line with a fee action.
Then I switch over to the commission expense account window to enter the
commission, because trying to do it in the stock window seems to mess up the
number or price. Entering a single transaction in two windows is awkward.
Is there a better way?
When I look at the stock window again I see a "0" in the "d"
column. What the heck is that?
The commission does not show up on the Stock Portfolio as part of the cost
basis. It'd be nice to have a cost basis with and without commissions.
Dividends: It seems to me that this should be a transfer from "Dividend
Income" to my trading account. No part of the transaction touches the stock
account, so how would a (future) report be able to figure out my return on the
stock?
Dividend reinvestment: This seems straightforward: Transfer from "Dividend
Income" to the stock account. What should the action be, "div".
How to do this and other such transactions should definitely be in the help. A
druid would be nice.
Options: how should these be handled? ie grants, vests, exercises.
For reference, Microsoft Money 2000 has:
buy
sell
interest
reinvest interest
dividend
reinvest dividend
capital gains
mid-term cap gains dist
reinvest capital gains
capital gains distribution
reinvest mid-term CG dist
reinvest cap gains dist
other income
other expense
return of capital
add shares
remove shares
short sell
cover short
grant
vest
exercise
expire
redeem GIC/Bond
renew gic
transfer in
transfer out
transfer in short
transfer out short
Thanks,
Bryan
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Phone: 306 664 2087 x29. Fax: 306 664 4446
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