On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 19:18:34 -0500, Cal Learner-- MVP
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no idea that these transactions had to be/could be entered in the
Investments Transactions Register. I have been just keying them
into the Cash Transactions Register, but of course they didn't
show up in the Investments Register, and my account would not
balance against my brokerage statements.

There weren't but some 10 or 12 such transactions, and they
weren't of any serious magnitude, but they just kept the account
from balancing against my brokerage statemens. Now everything
balances. Thanks for the help.

I tried the style choices and will work with them some more. This
may be an easier way to enter the data. I'll give it a whirl and
see how it works out. I appreciate the information you supplied.

Gordon

In microsoft.public.money, Gordon wrote:

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Almost. I would tend to mark them Void for now until I was pretty
sure I have the data moved over. If you are sure you have that data
retained, then you could delete them now.

While you are working with the register, there are some style
choices you can use. For example, if you un-tick
ShowTransactionForms, you will get a style where you enter the
transactions right into the register. If you press Ctrl+T keys you
will toggle from single-line to a different display.

But yes, if you use the Transactions Forms setting to enter a new
transaction, you click New.

And a comment on using the Dividend, Long Term Capital Gain, Short
term ... etc, those let Money associate the income source with a
given security.

I would also point out that a ReinvestDividend is like a Dividend
and a Buy combined. Ditto for the various Reinvest... transaction
types.

On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:02:49 -0500, Cal Learner-- MVP
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for Standard view.) The right-most column has the heading, "Gain"
but when I move my mouse pointer over this header I get a popup
that reads "Total profit or loss....etc.
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Transactions Register view had means for entering these items. It
seems that if I click the New button then under the Activity
drop-down there is a way to key this information into the
Investment Transactions. Should I now delete all those entries
from the Cash Transactions register. There aren't but about a
dozen of these transactions, so it wouldn't be hard to delete
them and start all over from scratch.
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In microsoft.public.money, Gordon wrote:

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There is no "Total profit" column. There is a "Total Return -- All
dates" column. The columns can be moved around. You can choose what
items you want by going to
ChangePortfolioView-> CustomizeCurrentView-> PortfolioColumns and
adding or removing items.

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That is the problem then. They should be entered as Dividends etc in
the Investment transactions register rather than in the Cash
transactions register.

If you are downloading that way, then you will need to rework the
information to get things right. One way would be to Void the
transactions in the Cash transactions register and change the
Dividend transactions into ReinvestDividend transactions.

If you are downloading, who is the institution who is sending the
data that way, in case it comes up in the future?

On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:37:42 -0500, Cal Learner-- MVP
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the date of purchase. This is the right most column on the
Portfolio Manager screen.

I have these items listed as Investment Incomeividends, when
the money came in, then I show them as Buy entries on the same
investment account.

All the data is there, and I can run the figures with my hand
calculator and get the right results, but the MS Money Total
Profits column fails to recognize the income from these
dividends. I'm thinking this must be a glitch caused by some
improper setting or entry, but I can not locate it.

All my other accounts and holdings balance to the third decimal
place, but htis one seems to be doing something strange with my
money.

Gordon

In microsoft.public.money, Gordon wrote:

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Are you looking at the TotalReturn column in the Portfolio views?

Are the additional share purchases entered in the register as
ReinvestDividend or Reinvest[somethingElse], or what?



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My Money 2006 setup shows a net loss for my mutual funds although
there is actually a net gain when the additional shares purchased
with reinvested dividends are correctly tallied up. What settings
should I look for to get this error resolved?

It seems that Money is not acknowledging the income from the
dividends, but merely calculates the number of shares owned and
the average price paid per share, then compares this to the
current price per share X number of shares held, net value.

Gordon