Correct. And it's been that way since Money first supported Investment
Accounts and Investments and this goes back well more than a decade.

IF the savings is invested in an Investment like, say, a Money Market mutual
fund, THEN this performance will show up in Portfolio Manager. But "just
cash" savings are not typically setup this way and, as you note, aren't
recognized as investment vehicles by Portfolio Manager, et al. If you really
want to, you can fake it out by creating a virtual money market fund
Investment and a virtual Investment Account to hold those Investments just to
do this. But this may cause havoc with downloaded transaction data and may
also not be worth the trouble.

In general, the performance of this kind of savings account is pretty easy
to figure out and is frequently quoted on bank statements.

"Ouroboros" wrote:

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Hello Dick,

Thanks - I'll do that when I report to get my Interest, if I leave Interest
defined in the standard way.

However the only way it seems to get to see interest in the Portfolio
Manager screens is to set Interest up as an 'other investment' and log it as
that new Investment type in the account register (transactions) as 'other
income'. Then when money is drawing its charts etc it picks it p as a valid
investment.

I'm really surprised MS Money works in the way it does - it means entire
savings accounts, which are real investments don't get shown in Portfolio
Manager otherwise.

"Dick Watson" wrote:

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I don't think you are looking in the right place.

I use category Investment Income : Interest for these cash account
transactions. I report out that category when looking for tax information.

Note that Investment Activities like Dividend Received have an underlying
Income Category like Investment Income : Interest.

"Ouroboros" <Ouroboros[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:92351A9D-AB07-4D23-8BE2-324897CFC545[at]microsoft.com...
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"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:
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In microsoft.public.money, Ouroboros wrote:

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If you want to attribute the distributions to a given investment,
enter the payment in the transactions register as Dividend,
OtherIncome, Interest, or whatever other type is available to that
type of investment.

If en
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For stocks, interest is not one of the options in the Investment
Transactions register. Other choices are available. For mutual funds
and MMFs, it is one of the choices.

Now if you are downloading, depending of the broker, distributions
for an investment (especially interest/dividends form a MMF) can
come in as a cash deposit. You can either leave it that way for
simplicity, or you can delete/void that deposit, and enter the
transaction into the Investment Transactions register to better
track the reality. Your choice.

Hi,

I've setup MS Money to track a number of investments, which it does very
well. However, it doesn't seem to class account interest in my cash accounts
as investemnets.

Could anyone please advise how I get (or define the interest correctly in
the cash accounts) MS money to show interest in the portfolio manger of other
investment reports.

Likewise, in Share Investment accounts, I've been adding my interest in the
associated cash accounts, but this does not seem to be actively tracked (cash
is in portfolio mgr). Do you have to setup Interest like other investment for
it to show up in the reports?