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

[allan]

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

--- Comment #14 from allan <agander93 at gmail.com> ---
> 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 think I see a glimmer...

> 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".

> > 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)"

I suspect what may be behind the confusion goes back to what you said earlier:
that this derived from an import from Quicken.  If originally that was a QIF
import, the the 'L' line has two variations.  The 'L'  would be followed by an
'account/category' name.  If that name is enclosed in [ ], then that is treated
as an account to be used for the funds transfer.  If however it is not so
enclosed, then the name is taken to be a category.  I suspect that in this case
what should have been an account name was not enclosed and so became a
category, and it is that mistake that I think is misleading you.

I can't see a reason for wanting to use a foo (Brokerage) name as a category -
it is the name of the accpunt to receive the dividend amount.  This is a
Dividend transaction, so, To me, the category should reflect that and be
Dividend or _Dividend or....

That was what my example was showing, and your comment below is actually
unfixing rather that fixing.  However, it's your file, and you may use it as
you wish, of course.

> 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"?

The field is dual purpose, and sometimes, where there is room, it is called
"Interest /Category".

> > 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
I haven't yet looked at the screen-shots, so hopefully they don't thow more
confusion in.

Allan

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