[Kmymoney] Investments: Dividend Reversal

[Joe W. Byers]

On 01/12/2014 04:24 PM, Allan wrote:
> On 12/01/14 21:28, Joe W. Byers wrote:
>> I have found an issue when trying to reverse a dividend credited to a
>> Money Market Account from a Stock.  I had a few shares of a company
>> stock that required manually transferring the shares after I left the
>> firm.  I was paid by check a dividend and deposited it into my 401K. The
>> investment firm inadvertently credited by account twice for the
>> transaction in two different statement periods.  I recorded it and in
>> the following statement period where it was reverse attempted to enter a
>> transaction with a negative dividend (income account).  Kmymoney would
>> not accept the negative amount and kept resetting the total to a
>> positive value.  I know I can delete my transactions and have the
>> correct balances, but I loose the detailed audit tracks that accountants
>> like to see.
>>
>> This will require an expense dividend category or a transfer account
>> with an adjusting entry from either of these to the income dividend
>> category to get the income dividend category to be correct.
>>
>> What can we do about this?
>>
>
> If I understand correctly, you have a conventional dividend, and you 
> wish to enter a balancing dividend with a negative amount?
>
> If that is the case, then I'm not sure what the difficulty is, as I am 
> able to do that, both via import and manually.
>
> If I enter $-10 as the interest, it immediately shows as a value of 
> $-10. Once the transaction is entered, if the focus is moved, the 
> value in the investment account will appear as $10, but if the focus 
> is returned, the interest amount does show as $-10.  In the Asset 
> account, the two transactions will show as a
> deposit and a payment.
>
> Allan
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Alan,

You are correct.  I finally realized that after entering and deleting 
the transaction several time.  Is the action from being in and out of 
focus the way this should behave?

Thanks
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*Joe W. Byers*
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