[Kmymoney] Reinvesting Dividends

[Jane Hadley]

Thanks, Joe. But I can't figure how to set the fraction field for each
investment.

When I go to "Investments" and then click on the "Securities" tab, I see a
list of my securities. And I see the "fraction" field, which currently is
set to 100 for all the securities. But I can't see how to edit that field
so that I can change the 100 to 1000. Could you tell me how to do that?

Jane


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Joe W. Byers <ecjbosu at aol.com> wrote:

>  On 01/14/2014 08:12 PM, Jane Hadley wrote:
>
> Now that a new year is beginning, I'm shifting over completely to KMyMoney
> from Quicken. The training wheels are off!
>
>  I've solved many questions through trial-and-error, consultation with my
> husband, and Internet research. But here's one I haven't cracked yet.
>
>  When I do a "reinvest dividend" activity, I am given boxes to enter in
> the number of shares and the price per share. When I do that, KMM
> calculates the total dollar amount.
>
>  I have two questions about this "reinvest dividend" process:
>
>  1) Even though I type in 57.758 shares, KMM rounds it to 57.76 shares. I
> would like to have more than two decimal places for my share balance. I
> have already gone to Settings-->Configure KMyMoney --> Price precision = 6
> digits. But I still get this rounding to two decimal places for share
> quantity. Any way to achieve my objective?
>
>  2) My Fidelity account gives only the number of shares and the dollar
> amount of a dividend transaction. When I entered these into Quicken, it
> automatically calculated the share price. But I haven't found any way for
> KMyMoney to do this. Hence, I have had to use a hand-held calculator to
> calculate the share price and then enter that figure into KMyMoney, but
> this seems rather clunky.
>
>  Am I missing something here? I would like for KMM to allow me to enter
> the number of shares and total dollar amount and then have the share price
> automatically calculated by KMM.
>
>  Thanks,
> Jane Hadley
>
>
>
>
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>  Jane,
>
> The fraction field for each investment will set the decimal places for
> share quantity.  I set all of mine to 1/1000.  I had more when I migrated
> from Quicken 2 years ago, but after time reset them to 1000.  i find this
> works adequately since most brokerages only show 3 decimal places for share
> volumes.
>
> I have configured Kmymoney to use kcalc on my linux machine.  This allows
> me to click a little calculator button or type in the formula of total
> price / shares to get a price per share.  I would also like this field to
> be calculated from total price since trading mutual funds can have 3
> different prices per share for ordinary dividends, short term cap gains,
> and long term cap gains dispursed.  The brokerage firm tends to round
> differently for each of these.  I irritates me that I then have 3 different
> cost basis to average out:)  We could both request this feature.
>
> Thank you
> Joe
>
>
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