In microsoft.public.money, Crabby Gator wrote:

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You cannot schedule a dividend in Money as you do a those scheduled
transactions.

Does your financial institution offer downloads of transactions?
That's what I like.

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If the investment is set up to be a mutual fund, there should be
such a choice in the drop-down list. You may have to scroll down to
see the whole list. If there is no such choice, you may have set up
the investment as a stock. If so, some remedial action is in order.

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I think the transactions in the transactions register are much
better in that regard.

Cal Learner-- MVP <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote the following:

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OK, so it looks like I was indeed entering the dividends incorrectly.
My follow-up question is this:

How do I automate their entry? I get a dividend every month and I don't
see a way to have the investment transactions recur every month.

I initially set them up in "Bills & Deposits" because they recur every
month and it made sense at the time.

Finally, along the same lines, how would one enter capital gains
distributions? I don't see any "actions" that would correspond to that in
the investment transactions menu.

Would that be more appropriately entered as a cash transaction in the cash
register of the account? In other words, should capital gains
distributions be counted toward a particular investment's performance?

Thanks!!

CbG

I have Money 2006, but I suspect that your version is similar enough.

First, make sure you enter all your dividends in the Money account
register for your brokerage.

Then, use Money's "Reports" menu. Select the report for "investment
performance by investment type." Customize it as you wish. As far as I
can tell, the resulting report does take both price appreciation and
dividends into account. It presents a total return and and annualized
return, plus a few other figures.
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In microsoft.public.money, Crabby Gator wrote:

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To enter the dividends, enter them into the Investment Transactions
register with a Dividend or ReinvestDividend transaction as
appropriate.

If dividends are entered right, you should see the Dividend
transactions when you click the [+] in front of the investment name.

Cal Learner-- MVP <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote the following:

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Thanks for the reply.

Sorry, yes i was looking at the portfolio view.
"ROI all dates" appears as the abbreviated column header for "Total Return
all dates": i had the columns sized narrowly.

Anwyay, the value that is currently being reported is merely the current
market value over the initial purchase price.
There seem to be other "total return" columns to choose from ... perhaps i
have the dividend payouts miscategorized?

I have scheduled monthly deposits to capture the payouts, and created a
payee named after the fund, and categorized it as investment income,
dividends. I realize now that there is no way for money to know how to
associate these deposits with the investment entry in the portfolio.
Can you tell me how to reclassify these deposits? Or is there another
recomended way to handle dividends from stocks or ETFs.

Thanks!!!!

CbG

In microsoft.public.money, Crabby Gator wrote:

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"ROI"? Where are you looking? At the Portfolio? What does the column
heading say?

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Configure in the Total Return (TR) columns into the portfolio view.
They should include the effect of dividend transactions.

Has anyone figured out how to show the actual ROI and gain from ETF's that
pay monthly dividends?
Example: I purchase 100 shares of XYZ at $10.00/each on 01/01/2005
Every month it pays a dividend, say $0.10/share so i get $10/month as cash
at the end of 2005, the share price is $15/share and i've made $120 in
dividends. The ROI in Money (2004) seems to be based solely on the share
price increase,

So, is there a way to have it figure in the dividends?

Thanks,
CbG