Re: Money 2003: Change investment type from fund to stock by via_newsgroup
via_newsgroup
Thu Aug 14 10:47:53 CDT 2003
In microsoft.public.money, IanP. wrote:
>One of my investments was set up incorrectly as a mutual fund rather
>than a stock. Now when I sync with my brokerage website, it doesn't
>find the stock (since Money thinks it's a mutual fund) and it wants to
>add all the stock shares to my account as new shares.
>
>How can I change the investment type from mutual fund to stock from
>the Investments area? There are no menu options to do so and the
>online help doesn't provide any clues. I have several years worth of
>transactions for this stock, so I'd hate to have to re-enter them all.
It is not trivial, but not as hard as it first appears. A few
minutes should do it.
In the details, remove the symbol, and rename the existing "stock"
to something you will never use. Let's suppose you choose zzzz.
Create a new mutual fund with the correct name and symbol.
Go back to investment zzzz and choose View: Investment Details.
Change each transaction to the fund using the drop-down list. My
inclination would be to try starting with the oldest transaction.
Keep going until there are no more zzzz transactions remaining. At
that point you can "delete" zzzz.
Let us know if you encounter problems with that.
Myrna Larson suggests " To avoid problems with sells, you can
simply enter a bogus initial transaction with enough shares to
cover all subsequent sales. You should then be able to move the
transactions in any order you like. After all transactions have
been moved, delete the dummy entry."