Resume from the previous episode ;-) - Summary: I have registered some dividends paid in cash as explained in the Tutorial and Concepts Guide - 8.8.1. Dividends in cash http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/invest-dividends1.html#invest-dividendcash That is: to balance the Assets:Brokerage account with the Incomes:Dividends one.
As I would have liked to see that dividends to appear in the Advanced Portfolio report, I searched for clues on the list archives and found a thread with the same topic (from June 2003): http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2003-June/007020.html As the conclusion from that (old) thread was that it is not possible to include dividends in cash in the Advanced Portfolio report as the transactions are not part of the portfolio, I posted a suggestion to update the report script: http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2009-April/029542.html And filled a bug (enhancement): http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581191 (The idea was to make the script to look into Incomes:Dividends for accounts with the same code as the share accounts.) Still curious, I tried to find if I could tweak something from myself, and had a look at the Advanced Portfolio source. I don't know much about scheme and I don't really understand how this script works, but I can see that there IS some mechanisms to integrate dividends in the report. So for testing, I edited my dividends transactions, and balanced them straight with the share accounts (leaving the 'items' and 'price' fields empty. Checked the Advanced Portfolio... and BINGO: the "dividends in cash" are in the report like I wished. So now my questions: - Are there any reason to make this method deprecated ? (Other than the fact I won't see the dividends as incomes anymore.) - Is it just that the Tutorial needs some updates ? AmigaPhil _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
