> On Sep 6, 2022, at 5:56 AM, Jack Frillman <jcf_m_li...@me.com> wrote:
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> On 9/5/22 11:53 PM, john wrote:
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>>> On Sep 5, 2022, at 4:05 PM, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
>>> <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
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>>> On 9/5/22 3:09 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>>>> On Sep 5, 2022, at 10:32 AM, Adrien Monteleone
>>>>> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> <mailto: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?
> Not sure what you mean by "turned on" but the previous dividends were
> reinvested and were entered manually.
Dividend reinvestment is optional with most open-ended mutual funds, so "turned
on" means that you have accepted the option.
You didn't answer the last, most important, question: Was the last dividend,
the one that's the subject of your original question, reinvested so that you
had shares in the fund again and had to sell them to re-close the position?
Regards,
John Ralls
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