[kmymoney] [Bug 495119] Feature Request: Add support for scrip dividends

[Jack]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495119

--- Comment #1 from Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> ---
While a valid request, this is not likely to get implemented until a major
overhaul of all of investment handling in KMyMoney.  I don't know that it will
be particularly difficult, but developer time is extremely short right now.  
However, this does seem at least partly related to a recent request to allow
paying a cash dividend as part of a stock split which only splits whole shares
and pays a dividend for the partial shares.  In this case, I think it could
work to allow both shares and cash to be paid as dividends.  However, based on
the last bit in the Wikipedia entry, the trick to getting it right will be how
to set the basis date (effective purchase date) of the new shares to properly
meet tax reporting requirements.  That whole issue (tracking when each share
was purchased) is one of the major parts to the needed rewrite of the
investment code.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.