Re: Help.. p;ease.. money 2003 & stock split ! by via_newsgroup
via_newsgroup
Sat Dec 03 01:23:58 CST 2005
In microsoft.public.money, Amamba wrote:
>I am absolutely and utterly confused. Hope someone could help..
>
>I bought 40 shares of stock, it split 2:3 so that I had 60 shares to
>sell. Fine.
>
>I later re-bought it, then it split again. Fine.
>
>In Money, it shows me originally buying and then selling _90_ shares
>at a different price, so that I end up with same amount that I sold 60
>for. It seems that when the stock split again - after I re-bought it -
>Money had went all the way back to the original transaction and
>adjusted it for split.
Right. Notice that the per-share price of the Buy in the register
has an "s" appended to indicate it is from a split.
>
>So, if I sell the stock, and re-buy it 10 years later, all my totals
>will be OK but my share #s will be completely off ? Is there a way to
>force Money to keep the historic data for each batch ?
Money has that data, but you would need to delete the splits later
to recover that info. But consider this: if you are in the US, when
you sell the stock, you enter what you sold, when you sold it, what
you received, when you bought it, and what you paid. You do NOT
enter the number of shares that your original purchase was.
Money makes schedule D entry easy. Besides having the data available
in a report, you can export that data to TaxCut, TurboTax, or some
other tax program that accepts QXF files.
That "re-buy it 10 years later" thing does not add a problem. You
will be buying post-split shares.