CashflowAccountant
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CashflowAccountant
@CashflowAcct
📈 Maximizing yield. Minimizing the 9-5. ⚖️ Documenting Accountant’s Investing Journey. "Nibble the dips, don't buy the dip" NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE










Sigh. The math is obviously implied based on the inescapable mechanism and sheer physics, but I'll spell it out for you if you insist. I have a $10 share of $SCHD. It pays me a $1 dividend. I now have a $9 share of $SCHD and $1 in cash. I pay 15% tax on that $1, so I keep $0.85. I reinvest that $0.85 for a total after-tax position of $9.85. I've, once again, effectively transferred money from my left pocket to my right pocket and paid taxes on it. $SCHD's balance sheet and the "mEcHaNiCs" thereof are irrelevant to my simple invariable outcome outlined above. Please explain to me, specifically, using numbers and verifiable logic, why this simple analogy is "grossly erroneous." You seem to agree with the numbers but not the metaphor. That does not compute, as they're saying the same thing. I fail to see how you can acknowledge dividends aren't free money while simultaneously saying such an analogy is a "gross misunderstanding." They are saying the same thing. That's what "unequivocally" means. Not a strawman. I am responding to your ostensibly conflicting belief. At this point I have to assume you don't realize those are saying the same thing, and I'm admittedly getting tired of walking you through the logic, so I'll leave you to continue researching that thread on your own time. I also can't figure out why all this requires explaining, especially to an accountant. 🙃






















My $SCHD dividends were paid early by @Fidelity $642 received for Q1 2026💰 This will buy another 21 shares or how I like to think about it: ~$22 of annual income for the rest of my life, plus annual raises on top of both!













