[moneydance] I'm Rich! O, no, Moneydance is Being Obnoxious

[Hans Derycke]

I look at my net worth, and instead of the usual slow but  
unfortunately exorably rising line at the top of the window, I'm flat- 
lining, with a spike to $29 million -- something's wrong, and I need  
to know what it is.

Soon I discover that a dividend transaction came in from Schwab with  
a share price of $10,000 instead of $1. I correct the price in the  
security history window, but the problem remains. The price on the  
dividend transaction is still $10,000 and not editable. I delete the  
offending transaction and try to create a new one, but the price  
comes in as $10,000. I switch to entering a DivReinvest transaction,  
and the price is now $1.

But my net worth graph is still stupid. Somewhere, somehow,  
Moneydance is convinced that in July 2007, I was worth $28,000,000  
(yeah, I just "lost" a million).

Further investigation reveals another account (with Schwab) where  
there are *two* funds with dividend transactions with a price set to  
$10,000. I fix the transactions, and remove the offending lines of  
both funds' history. Problem solved: I'm not rich anymore, but the  
numbers are much more reliable.

Conclusion: dividend transactions should not have a price.

Hans.
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