Hi, I’m assessing Sharesight for tracking a few portfolios within the family. We have quite a few accumulation funds. These generate dividends that are not distributed (obvs) but sharesight shows them as income. I fear therefore that the reporting is effectively showing the dividend twice: once wi…

Hi @db8000 , Sharesight does not distinguish between accumulation and income holdings at the moment and doesn’t have a dedicated feature to record these types of dividends; however, we may be able to propose a work around to record this. All you need to do is add a capital call trade for each divid…

Thanks for the replies. @Piumi_Sharesight it’s a bit of a glaring omission really. With 6 portfolios that i wish to track and therefore quite a few individual funds, it really needs to be automated. If i can’t find the time to keep up with it, the default position within Sharesight is that all the …

I am having a similar issue. What has me confused is that when I enter the capital call for each dividend payment, the ROI of the investment deteriorates. Surely this should not be the case given that the cost base in theory is improving by virtue of the distributions being reinvested?

I found it useful to sense check by removing all the dividends, capital calls and capital return entries. As no cash is actually being returned here, the CG return and performance should be exactly the same (just the cost base will be incorrect).

Hi @Piumi_Sharesight , you said in November 2023 that your product team was looking into a way to fix this issue. It’s now July 2025 - any update on that? It really is quite a major drawback, and a manual workaround isn’t really a solution when you have multiple accumulation funds in your portfolio.

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Shelving7129 24 November 2023 05:45 3

An example here in case it helps as I had to figure out the same: Handling equalisation and accumulation units from UK/IE funds - #2 by Shelving7129

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