[Kmymoney] [Kmymoney-devel] Need Interest category in Reinvest activity?

[David Houlden]

On Monday 31 August 2015 13:43:27 Jack wrote:
> On 2015.08.31 12:08, aga wrote:
> > I've been wrestling for a while with  
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347166 "Price/share" field on  
> > investment transaction entry form is mislabeled. Actually is total  
> > buy/sale amount.
> > 
> > Jack has noticed that if a Dividend transaction is edited to be a  
> > Reinvest, the price field has no label.  I then found that this  
> > happens also with Buy or Sell transactions.  That is easily fixed.   
> > Then I noticed that once the above edit has completed, the resulting  
> > transaction is unbalanced, that is, it has an incorrect interest  
> > amount.  The erroneous amount corresponds with the amount of the  
> > original Dividend transaction.
> > 
> > I've been trying to eradicate that, but the only way I've found, is  
> > to remove the Interest field from Reinvest transactions (and  
> > presumably Buy and Sell, but I've not looked at them).
> > 
> > a)  Is this likely to be a problem to anyone?
> > b)  Can anyone see a better way to resolve this?  I'm sure there must  
> > be one.
> > 
> > Allan
> 
> First, whether that field is total amount or price per share depends on  
> the configuration, and I think there are multiple levels, in that you  
> can specify specifically for that equity, for that investment account,  
> and overall for KMM.
> 
> I don't see how you can remove the interest field from a reinvest  
> transaction.  I use that to specify (using different categories)  
> whether the amount is taxable or not, dividend, foreign dividend, .....
> 
I also don't see how you can remove it. I have dividends which get reinvested and the dividend has to be reported as income at tax year end. The interest field is used for that information.

Dave.