Has anyone noticed any odd calculations in Portfolio Manager totals for
certain columns (such as income) when transactions contain negative values?
For example, one of my holdings (an ADR) has recently distributed a dividend,
followed by a 15% tax witholding, resulting in two dividend transactions
downloaded from my broker (one with positive value, the next one with
negative). Besides the fact that Money does not allow me to adjust category
on the second transaction (since it is a "dividend" entry), portfolio manager
now displays an income value that includes the dividend plus a positive
amount for witholding entry. For example, if dividend was $100, and
witholding at $15, total cash value of account was increased by $85 dollars,
while portfolio manager Income column increased by $115. Any advice /
feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Portfolio Manager totals and negative values by Mark

Mark
Tue Nov 23 11:04:11 CST 2004

Which Broker?
Since this is not a valid way to record taxes according to OFX
specifications, is this broker download coming in as an OFX download?

The brokerage should not download a tax withdrawal as a negative dividend.
It should be downloaded as an INVBANKTRN or some other valid removal of
funds.

-Mark

"PaulLS" <PaulLS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Has anyone noticed any odd calculations in Portfolio Manager totals for
> certain columns (such as income) when transactions contain negative
values?
> For example, one of my holdings (an ADR) has recently distributed a
dividend,
> followed by a 15% tax witholding, resulting in two dividend transactions
> downloaded from my broker (one with positive value, the next one with
> negative). Besides the fact that Money does not allow me to adjust
category
> on the second transaction (since it is a "dividend" entry), portfolio
manager
> now displays an income value that includes the dividend plus a positive
> amount for witholding entry. For example, if dividend was $100, and
> witholding at $15, total cash value of account was increased by $85
dollars,
> while portfolio manager Income column increased by $115. Any advice /
> feedback would be greatly appreciated.