Investment Account Import Issue

[Brendan Coupe]

I've seen the same _Fees ... problem too but there appears to be a
guessed default activity and interest category on the recent imports.
While testing I'm pretty sure the Interest entry says interest even
when you assign the activity as a dividend.

The problem with fixing it is that it no longer matches on the next
import. I don't think is consistent behavior but I'm not sure if it's
bank or security specific or maybe a change in KMM.

It would be nice if we could assign default activities and default
interest categories for each security like we do with Payees. On top
of that it would be even better if it just used the latest values from
the most recent import of the same security. Reducing the import time
to minimize duplicate transactions is not ideal wince I could
eventually miss some if I don't import for a while.

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Brendan Coupe

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 11:14 AM Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> On 2019.08.19 11:07, Brendan Coupe wrote:
> > I'm running KMM compiled from the Master branch yesterday on Fedora
> > 30.
> >
> > When I import transactions from my broker interest on CDs the activity
> > is labeled as a Dividend and the category selected is for dividends.
> > If I change the activity to Interest Income and/or change the category
> > for the interest to  the correct interest category the next time I
> > import from that account it does not match and I get a duplicate
> > transaction with the default values.
> >
> > Is there any way to change the default values for the CD? I tried
> > changing it from a stock to a bond but it does the same thing.
> >
> > CDs don't seem to have a home in KMM although all brokerage accounts
> > that I have used handle them like stocks and bonds so the import works
> > well (between the investment account and brokerage account) except for
> > assigning activity and categories and matching on subsequent imports.
> >
> > ----
> > Brendan Coupe
> >
> I have similar issues.  Sometimes my investment imports match something
> that uses the categories I want, but often I get things like _Dividends
> or _Fees, not just dividends intead of interest.  (I also wonder if
> there could be a way to use alternate categories (such as "Tax deferred
> interest" instead of "Interest") in specific accounts.  I've pretty
> much given up and accept that I have to fix things every import.
>
> Even though the tax implications (at least in the US) are different for
> interest and dividends, and thing seem to be reported mostly correctly
> on paper/PDF statementd and annual tax reports, they are often "wrong"
> in OFX downloads.  I don't know if it's more accurate to blame the
> institutions themselves, or the few companies that write the back end
> software they all use to generate OFX.