[Kmymoney-devel] Problem with investment transaction

[Jack]

Good afternoon,

This is indirectly related to the recent discussion about which widgets  
appear when editing an investment transaction, especially if changing  
the transaction type.  However, I have a problem in that I can't figure  
out how to create a particular transaction.  In theory, this should be  
a dividend reinvestment.  My problem is that Merrill Lynch only records  
whole shares, and if a dividend reinvestment is not for the exact  
amount, they indicate the partial shares purchased, but they are not  
actually purchased at that time.  When your partial shares exceed a  
whole share, they then just do a journal entry, which I can then record  
as an "add shares."

So - most of the time I add an amount to a category "partial share  
purchase" to account for that difference, and only include the whole  
shares purchased by the dividend.  My problem is that today I have a  
reinvestment that ONLY has a partial share.  "Reinvest dividends" will  
not allow 0 shares to be purchased, and "Dividends" does not allow for  
a "fee" which is where I record the difference.  I know that I don't  
really need to record this in a transaction since there is no increase  
in shares (I do not track the partial shares in KMM) and no real  
dividend amount to transfer to the brokerage account, but to be fully  
compulsive, I'd like to record it somehow.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Jack