[Kmymoney-devel] [kmymoney4] [Bug 339548] Can not enter an investment Dividend transaction

[george at wildturkeyranch.net]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339548

--- Comment #11 from george at wildturkeyranch.net ---
(In reply to allan from comment #9)
> > So, I think this is a clean install.  This is what I see:
> > Steps:
> > 1. open a ledger for an investment account (say foo) with an attached
> > checking account (foo (Brokerage))
> OK.
> > 2. Click "Edit"
> What am I editing here?  An existing transaction?  Is it possible to do this
> with a new transaction, so I can work with the same data as you?
My bad.  I ment the click "NEW".

> > 3. For "Activity" select "Dividend". At this point the "Account" entry is
> > set to "foo (Brokerage)"
> OK.
> > 4. In the "Interest" entry enter "foo (Brokerage)"
> So you're using/creating a new category?
No.  While that is a category, it was created when I did the QIF import.  

To be clear here, I am new to KMM after more years that I want to count using
Quicken.  They made it too hard to run under "wine" and KMM looked ready so I
just switched.  

I imported several investment accounts and am just now trying to get them up to
date.  The issue that generated this report was that a OFX update failed to
handle a correction transaction where the Fidelity was adding a small amout to
fix a miss reported dividend.  I thought that all I needed to do was to make
the transaction look like the a downloaded dividend transaction that "appeared"
to be correct, in that the amount appeared in both the investment account and
in the brokerage and the dollar balance matched Fidelity's.

> > 5. In the second "interest" entry enter an amount, say 10.
> Sorry, which  second "interest" entry?  Are you now in the split editor?
No.  Take a look at the "edit" sub window.  In my system, in this case, there
is a column on the left that reads: Activity, Security, Account, Fees,
Interest, Memo
and a column about 75% of the window width to the right that reads: Date, , , ,
Interest, Total, Status
This is the second "Interest" entry and seems to be for the amount which I want
to set to "10".

> > At this point the
> > "Enter" button activates.
> > 6. Click the "Enter" button.
> > 
> > On my system this results in a ledger entry which shows $0.00  0.000
> > If I edit this entry I find "Interest" is "Split transaction" and the split
> > has two entries which are the same except the sign of one entry is negative
> > while the other is not.
> > I have found two ways to fix this:
> > 1. if at step 3,  insert 3.1: clear the "Account" entry and reenter "foo
> > (Brokerage)" .  Step 6 will then give the expected answer.
> Which is what?
> > 2. The bad entry can be edited by:
> > a. deleting the negative split entry and
> > b. deleting the "Account" entry and re-entering the "Account" entery, i.e.
> > "foo (Brokerage)"
> > c. Clicking the "Enter" button.
> 
> I'm sorry, but I'm not yet sure I know what you are trying to achieve, and I
> don't think I am following your steps correctly.

I suspect that the only differance is that you do not have a category of "foo
(Brokerage)"

If I do as you suggest in your next message, i.e. use "dividend" as the
category, I get the same result, i.e. a net zero transactions with a split
containing the canceling amount.  Again, the fix is to eliminate and re-enter
the "Account" field.

By the way, if category is what is wanted in the "Interest" field, why is it
named "Interest" and not "Catagory"?
> 
> Perhaps you could provide some screen shots, and ensure your steps are fully
> explained.
I will attach two screen shots, before Enter and after {Enter, Edit, open
split}
> 
> Allan

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