Generic Transaction Import and Default Cash Account

[dlevy]

I am evaluating FM by importing data from another portfolio management tool. Mostly smiles so far!

I have exported transaction data from the other package as a small number of .csv files, edited them to work with the generic import, and imported them successfully, with a small exception.

I have specified one of the investments (CASH) as the default cash account. Distributions from other investments are appropriately swept into CASH, yet dividends from CASH itself are not.

The import string is SYMB,ED,TRAN,ANUM,BNUM,CNUM and typical data is:

CASH,20100815, DIST_D,0.2,0,0

(for the whopping $0.20 distribution).

The twenty cents seems to disappear. Do I need to create a REINV_D rather than a DIST_D transaction? Or is there something else I should be doing?

With thanks,

David

[Mark]

Hi David,

Thanks for trying out Fund Manager. Yes, you are correct. For cash distributions, if you want them to buy more shares of cash (the normal case for an interest payment), you would import this as a reinvested distribution (REINV_D).

[dlevy]

Thanks! That worked fine.

And how do you maintain a 13 minute turnaround on these posts? Wow!