I enter my transactions manually, so I'm not sure if this applies, but in my
cash account, a memo is automatically added to each transaction such as
"Dividend:XXX Fund". You can create an "Account Transactions" report and
sort on the memo field. However, you can't subtotal on the memo field. I
export this report to Excel to get the subtotals. It may not be the most
elegant solution in the world, but it works for me.

"John Girard" wrote:

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Hi Dick --

Yes, we're on the same page here:

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Yes..

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Correct

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Precisely

In any case I'm glad to hear that at least this problem "makes sense"..
I'll keep tweaking and post back here if I have any luck resolving it.

-John

Wow!

I think you've got me on this one. I almost exclusively reinvest, so maybe I
was making some assumptions based on what I've learned/done in my Money DB
reverse engineering project. (I just went and checked a specific data point
there and my importers and match logic deal "correctly" with what Money
spits out here--i.e., I associate the cash income categorization with the
receiving Cash transfer account.)

I guess I have to agree with your frustration. It really doesn't make much
sense to reflect the Income category only in the Investment Account since
the Investment Accounts aren't reported in the Income reports.

OTOH, let's review the bidding to make sure we are talking about the same
thing:

- you are downloading data (generally I'd say this puts all bets off, but in
this case I'll make an exception)
- the Investment accounts reflects a "Dividend" activity with a transfer
account set to the cash account
- your Tools|Options|Investments|Investment Categories|Dividend Income is
set to something like Investment Incomeividends

In my just-entered testcase, for report defaults--maybe there are
customizations that can get you there, it:
- shows up categorized in the Income and Spending report
- shows up as an Inflow Transfer in the Monthly Income and Expenses report
- doesn't show up in the Transactions By Category (Income categories) (why
it's Income in Income and Spending and not in Income Transactions by
Category is Another Money Mystery)
- shows up in Investment Transactions

I didn't check others--since I'd want it to show up uniformly in these--but
suspect Cal is on good tracks that it will show up in some of the reports
like Taxes.

"John Girard" <jgirard[at]gmail.com> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, John Girard wrote:

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I think you said you have Dividend transactions in the Investment
Transactions register.

1. Try resetting the report.

2. Consider trying the home page thing I suggested.

I did go into the "tax-related transactions" report, and (I think
because none of my dividend transactions have been categorized as
dividends), there are no transactions listed...

I hear what you're saying -- the problem is that the categories
associated with dividends in the cash account are "Transfer: Stock
Account", not investment categories.

It appears that when Money downloads my stock account information, it
automatically puts dividend transactions in the investment account as
activity "Dividend" and then creates a transfer to the cash account
(which then gets the category "Transfer...")

As a result of this, none of the dividend transactions have any
investment category associated with it.

Make sense?

In microsoft.public.money, John Girard wrote:

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See Reports> ReportsGallery-> TaxRelatedTransactions. Customize the
report as you wish, and maybe save it as a Favorite. The key
categories are under INCOME section heading.

Alternatively, on the home page, customize in the Income and
Expenses if it is not already there. Right-click into the gold
Income bar and choose ViewTransactions-> CreateAReport. Customize the
report as you wish, and maybe save it as a Favorite.

Search/report on the income in the cash accounts using the categories
associated with the investment activities. Think of the Investment account
as a filing cabinet for the stock certificates. You wouldn't look there for
the dividend checks.

"John Girard" <jgirard[at]gmail.com> wrote in message
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In Money 2k5, I've got a few stock accounts with separate cash and
investment transaction tracking.

When I enter receipt of a dividend for a stock (on the investment
transaction side, with "Dividend" chosen as the activity), the cash
side of the account shows a transfer from the investment side of the
account that is equal to the dividend amount (makes sense).

However, it appears that the investment side of a stock account does
not have any category tracking associated with it (only "activity"
tracking) and so the amount on the investment side is not categorized
as a "Dividend" or as "_DivInc" or any such. As a result, there is no
way to do a report on or search for dividend income.

Any thoughts?