I’m ridiculously pleased with the two tiny “apps” I’ve built.

Our investments sit on four different platforms. The same share can pay dividends up to five days apart depending on where it’s held. My Google Sheet follows each company’s official payment date, which means that as a Swede I often don’t see the money until several days later.

Result: I usually can’t close the books for a month until we’re well into the next one.

The latest app helps enormously. One single click and I instantly see exactly which dividends are still missing for any given month.

Checking that we’ve actually received everything we’re entitled to is now fast, simple and far more reliable.

I still wait more than fourteen days before I contact the bank about missing dividends — I know foreign payouts can take time.

You’d be amazed how often those dividends are simply parked on some internal “observation account” that nobody can be bothered to process.

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