[Kmymoney-devel] Re: Security Purchases from an Income Account

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi Alvaro Soliverez,

on Sunday 17 April 2011 12:45:10 you wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > on Sunday 17 April 2011 00:56:01 Michael Garrison Stuber wrote:
> >> Greetings!
> >> I have a set of account I track where income is paid directly into a
> >> mutual fund.  There is no brokerage or sweep account.  KMM won't allow
> >> me to use an Income account as the source account when funding a
> >> security purchase.  This leaves me with two options:  (1) create a
> >> imaginary sweep account, and then put in two entries for each purchase,
> >> one from the income account to the sweep account and another for the
> >> security purchase, funded from the sweep account; (2) use an equity
> >> account instead of a sweep account.
> >> 
> >> At the moment I've opted for #2.  Of course the fact that KMM won't let
> >> you create an equity account (see other email) makes this difficult, but
> >> assuming you're willing to repurpose the opening balance account or edit
> >> the XML by hand, it seems to work.
> > 
> > Ah, there's the use case (never mind, I should read all my mails before I
> > start answering).
> > 
> >> To me, both of these approaches are suboptimal.  Is there a design
> >> reason that investment transactions can't pull directly from an income
> >> account?
> > 
> > Not that I know of. Would it help to show the categories as well in the
> > Account selector of the investment transaction editor? At this point, I
> > have no idea about the impact on the reporting system.
> 
> How about the reinvest dividend transaction? Doesn't it do exactly
> that? (income to stock account)

Yes, but doesn't that screw up the performance reports? I think Michael is 
using that to buy stock out of his gross payment from an employer which is 
gross salary and not a dividend.


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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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