[Kmymoney] Dividend reinvestment (Scottrade, imported via OFX)

[Robert Tomsick]

Hi all:

I have a question regarding dividends and dividend reinvestment that I was 
hoping somebody might answer (or at least provide some hints.)

Here's the situation:

I have an account with the brokerage Scottrade.  I regularly import my 
transactions via OFX (they provide an OFX endpoint).  This works fine.

For assets for which I receive dividends, Scottrade generates two 
transactions.  The first is identified by KMyMoney as being of the type 
"Dividend".  This transaction lists an amount and the security for which 
the dividend was issued, but does not seem to include any other 
information (such as "Total").  (The transaction does include a memo such 
as "DIVIDEND ON 42.230 SHARES OF FOOBAR @ .061" but I believe this is 
generated by Scottrade, not KMyMoney.)

The second transaction is the re-investment one.  KMyMoney identifies this 
as being of the type "Buy Shares" and correctly populates the number of 
shares and the price, but the "Total" is listed as $0.00.

The first thing I tried was to accept the "Dividend" transaction, however 
doing so would require me to have it pay in to the Brokerage account -- 
which is not what actually happens (as far as Scottrade is concerned.)  I 
could live with that, but then I'd have to mark the "Buy Shares" 
transaction as coming from the brokerage account, and that seems... I 
dunno, hack-ish?  I'd like the re-investments to be marked as such.

I then tried changing the type of the "Buy Shares" transaction to Reinvest 
Dividends.  That works fine, only that leaves the "Dividend" transaction 
to be dealt with, but anything I do to get it to be acceptable requires 
me to specify an account and if I use the Brokerage account for that then 
I end up with an incorrect total there (since the amount is never debited 
by the "Reinvest Dividends" transaction.)

Finally, I tried matching the two transactions, but that only works if the 
totals are equivalent -- and I can't seem to manage that without 
manually-entering the information.

Since the above is confusing, here are some screenshots of the data as it 
is provided by Scottrade.

The entries in the ledger:      http://www.tomsick.net/img/ledger-entry.png
The Dividend transaction:       http://www.tomsick.net/img/dividend.png
The reinvestment (Buy Shares):  http://www.tomsick.net/img/purchase.png

Any advice is welcome.  I absolutely love the rest of the program and it's 
worked flawlessly for everything else I've thrown at it!

I'm running KMyMoney 4.6.2 (KDE Platform 4.8.3) as is currently provided 
in Debian testing.

If you need additional information, please don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks,
Robert Tomsick