> On Sep 5, 2022, at 4:05 PM, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
> <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 9/5/22 3:09 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> On Sep 5, 2022, at 10:32 AM, Adrien Monteleone
>>> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 9/5/22 12:13 PM, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote:
>>>> No I didn't delete the account?
>>>> Why would I do silly thing like that and lose all that history?
>>>> The account is hidden because it's balance is 0.
>>>> Reappearing means exactly what it says.
>>>> I was no longer in the account tree, i.e. list, because after the sale
>>>> it's balance became 0. No matter how I record that late dividend the
>>>> balance becomes non 0 and the account reappears in the account tree or
>>>> list.
>>> I didn't think you deleted it, but wasn't sure what was going on.
>>>
>>> I can set an account with a non-zero balance to 'hidden' and it stays that
>>> way, even with subsequent activity. I can set it to hidden with a zero
>>> balance, add another transaction to make it non-zero, and it stays hidden.
>>> I'm not sure why your account is showing up.
>>>
>>> Did you by chance set a View filter on your Accounts tab that would affect
>>> this?
>>>> I don't under stand the last part.
>>>>
>>>>> A Dividend receipt would normally be between some asset account ('bank'
>>>>> or a brokerage cash account if direct deposit, 'undeposited funds' if by
>>>>> paper check) according to how you received the money, and an
>>>>> Income/Revenue account, say 'Dividends Received'. The FundXYZ account
>>>>> shouldn't be touched at all.
>>> As it states, 'normally' a dividend transaction doesn't involve the
>>> fund/stock at all. It is a separate transaction between asset & income
>>> accounts. Though David just informed me that there may be times you might
>>> record it there, which I had not thought of.
>> In both cases you record an empty split to the stock account. That doesn't
>> change the account's balance and therefore won't unhide it from the Accounts
>> page.
>>
> And how do I do that?
See
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/invest-dividends1.html#invest-dividendcash.
Did you have dividend reinvestments turned on? Were you posting dividends the
way that the next section, Dividends Reinvested, recommends? Was that last
post-sale dividend reinvested so that you had to do a second sale?
Regards,
John Ralls
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