See investment income/dividends

James Tonn

How may I view monthly/quarterly dividends in the portfolio view or even in a report? 

lhossus

James

Perhaps this will do what you want?

1. Select Reports > New Report...,
2. Click Transaction on the Create a Report dialog that appears
3. Set Select Rows... to Category, and click on Create Report button
4. Click Customize on toolbar at top of report
5. Under Accounts tab, select "Include only transactions from selected accounts".
6. Click Clear All button, and then select Investing top-level group of accounts.
7. Click OK

This will give you a report, organized by Category, that is printable. Sorting by other criterion within Categories is possible.

Organizing by Payee, Tag, Account, Date is also available using Select Rows ... when setting up the report. Custom column selection can be part of the report.

Any of these reports can be saved for future use, retaining all the customization, such that the setup does not have to be repeated with each use.

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3/19/2019 Edited to expand on options available within the reporting framework

James Tonn

Just to clarify, I realize that I can open each individual dividend payment to see the actual $ amount. I'm looking for a column or report that gives me the summary/total dividend.

Ps56k2

OOPS - Sorry - just saw this was a MAC entry....
Not sure if the Mac has the same as Windows --
Reports --> Investment --> Investment Income

Does that give you what you are looking for ?
You can adjust the Sub-Total grouping -
BUT WARNING - the info is displayed out on the horizontal - use slider at the bottom

James Tonn

Thanks ps56k, but no, the Mac version does not have a report category for Investment as yet. Maybe some day?

lhossus

James

Perhaps this will do what you want?

1. Select Reports > New Report...,
2. Click Transaction on the Create a Report dialog that appears
3. Set Select Rows... to Category, and click on Create Report button
4. Click Customize on toolbar at top of report
5. Under Accounts tab, select "Include only transactions from selected accounts".
6. Click Clear All button, and then select Investing top-level group of accounts.
7. Click OK

This will give you a report, organized by Category, that is printable. Sorting by other criterion within Categories is possible.

Organizing by Payee, Tag, Account, Date is also available using Select Rows ... when setting up the report. Custom column selection can be part of the report.

Any of these reports can be saved for future use, retaining all the customization, such that the setup does not have to be repeated with each use.

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3/19/2019 Edited to expand on options available within the reporting framework

jlgg

James

Another possible way
     1. Select "All Transactions" in sidebar
     2. Select the date range you want 
     3. Select the account or group of accounts you wish to include
     4. Select the "Income" tab
     5. Click on "Dividend Income"

This should give you a report, sortable by date, security, etc. and printable

 

James Tonn

jlgg, That works to a degree. Most of my investments are set to reinvest dividends, and the view you suggest does not show the amount of the reinvested dividend. 

lhossus

James: you can of course change jlgg's last step to "Click on Reinvest Dividend". But to get all dividends, you have to perform both Clicks.

The report solution gives you all investment income in one go, besides being saveable as a named custom report so the effort becomes one pick from the Reports menu.

lhossus

I find it annoying that Quicken (either solution) requires one to deal with Dividend Income and Reinvest Dividend separately as two different categories. For tax purposes, they are all Dividend Income on Schedule B.

I tried to go into Window > Categories and add a group Dividends. My plan was to make sub-categories of the existing categories Dividend Income and Reinvest Dividend - assuming Quicken would then roll-up the sub-totals to Dividends . But Quicken politely but firmly informed me The "investments" category is used internally by Quicken and cannot be modified.