In microsoft.public.money, Pieter wrote:

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If you feel a need (or strong desire) to have dividends entered as
deposits into the Cash Transactions rather than as dividends into
the Investment Transactions register (which also shows the dividend
transferred into the Cash Transactions), then you could logically
reach that conclusion. I have a strong preference to have dividends
entered as dividends, so I would not reach that conclusion.

OK, even with your desire, the downloading could be advantageous.
1. You would still download buys and sells, which I assume you like.
2. You would download split data.
3. You would download position data that could be compared to your
holdings in your file.
4. You would download any fees, credits, or debits.
5. You could mark the downloaded dividend Void, and then in the Cash
Transactions you would have the amount and date handy for entering
your dividend transaction by hand.

One advantage of having dividend entered as dividends is that the
gain is associated with that investment, so it is included into the
total gains calculation. Also, if you use tax estimates, then the
tax estimating could be improved over having them as deposits where
they would either be thought of as regular income or not taxable at
all.

Yet there are a number of people who prefer entering all data by
hand always. One of their motivations is that they can check their
data against the institution's data to catch mistakes.


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Carl, thanks for the reply.
So basically it seems that there is no value in using E*TRADE automatic
downloads, i.e. if I have to manually fix or void every downloaded
transaction then I may just as well enter them by hand.

Regards
Pieter

"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Pieter wrote:

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I don't think you can, and I cannot think why you would want that.
You could say No during the download and have the transaction
voided. Then go enter the deposit by hand in the cash transactions.
I am not recommending this, but it is the closest way to accomplish
what you say you want.

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Jdbl?

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You can say it is a different transaction and then say No to void
the bogus download. Then select the manually entered transaction and
press Ctrl+M or right-click....

If that is not what you meant, then "you can't."

So do you download bogus transactions from E-trade often?

I am using Money 2007 and downloading (not importing) transaction statements
from E*TRADE.

When the statement contains interest or divident transactions Money insists
on assigning an investment to those transactions?
How can I get Money to treat those transactions as cash only transactions?

When Money matches a downloaded stock transaction with an entry I manually
created, Money overwrites the transaction details, so instead of seeing e.g.
purchased 100 MSFT at 100, I just see Jdbl.
How can I get Money to clear the transaction, but not overwrite the
transaction details?


Regards
Pieter