creating report of withdrawals from investment account

Question

I have an investment account in which I periodically sell assets and then a few days later transfer the cash into my checking account.  I am classifying these transfers as using the cash transactions menu as "Withdrawal".  I have tried to create a report to show the total of these withdrawals over time but the report menu does not seem to allow me to have it report "Withdrawal" but instead only "Withdrawx".  Advice needed, please.

maxwelwp · Answer

The withdraw and withdrawX (Cash transferred out of Account) actions seem redundant however behave differently.

First - I have scheduled monthly transfers (withdrawX) from my IRA to my checking account. Downloaded transactions from the IRA only match if the action is changed from withdrawX to withdraw.

Second - If I change the downloaded transaction from withdrawX to withdraw, a transaction report from the IRA register leaves the NUM field blank but report withdrawX if leave the transaction as withdrawX in the registers action field.

Third - changing the downloaded transaction to withdraw will create a new second transaction in the checking account in addition to the scheduled transaction. Deleting the withdraw transaction from the checking account removes the downloaded transaction from the investment account but leaves the original scheduled withdrawX transaction in the checking account resulting in a mismatch between accounts.

Don't know how the software differentiates between Withdraw (and selecting an account to transfer the cash to) and Cash Transferred out of Account (and selecting an account to transfer the cash to) but seems something is broken between the 2 functions.

First and foremost, why doesn't the software match a withdrawX action to the downloaded withdraw transaction. Secondly, why are there 2 separate functions (Withdraw and Cash Transferred out of Account) when both ultimately perform the same result (cash is transferred from one account to another)?

codygoebel · Answer

choosing the cash action in the investment transaction report produces the withdrawals but also dividends, expenses, and other transactions that I wanted to exclude

Jim_Harman · Answer

You weren't able to set the Action to Cash as I said above?