Recording a spin-off in MS Money 2007 de luxe

When I try to record a spin-off using the function that purports to do that,
in the investment account Money "removes" the parent shares then "adds" back
the parent shares with their assigned basis and the spun-off shares with
their share of the basis. All well and good, if a little bit clunky (my
guess is that the new holdings will be deemed to be acquired on the spin-off
date rather than the original acquisition date).

But here's my problem. For some reason Money seems to think that it should
also decrement the associated cash account by the amount of the cost basis.
This is so obviously incorrect that I must be doing something wrong, but I
can't see what. Searches in the knowledge base and in this newsgroup have
not helped. Could someone please enlighten me about how to do this
transaction without affecting the balance of the cash account?

Thanks for any help.

Cal
Tue Oct 02 17:40:34 PDT 2007

In microsoft.public.money, makemp wrote:

>When I try to record a spin-off using the function that purports to do that,
>in the investment account Money "removes" the parent shares then "adds" back
>the parent shares with their assigned basis and the spun-off shares with
>their share of the basis. All well and good, if a little bit clunky (my
>guess is that the new holdings will be deemed to be acquired on the spin-off
>date rather than the original acquisition date).
>
>But here's my problem. For some reason Money seems to think that it should
>also decrement the associated cash account by the amount of the cost basis.
>This is so obviously incorrect that I must be doing something wrong, but I
>can't see what. Searches in the knowledge base and in this newsgroup have
>not helped. Could someone please enlighten me about how to do this
>transaction without affecting the balance of the cash account?

The workaround is to do a compensating deposit into the cash
transactions account. You can leave the category blank, and record
the purpose in the memo.

Michael
Fri Oct 05 17:30:54 PDT 2007

A known problem in M07 -- it's fixed in M08 (MoneyPlus). You might want to
upgrade to it.

--
Michael Gordon


"makemp" <makemp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When I try to record a spin-off using the function that purports to do
> that,
> in the investment account Money "removes" the parent shares then "adds"
> back
> the parent shares with their assigned basis and the spun-off shares with
> their share of the basis. All well and good, if a little bit clunky (my
> guess is that the new holdings will be deemed to be acquired on the
> spin-off
> date rather than the original acquisition date).
>
> But here's my problem. For some reason Money seems to think that it
> should
> also decrement the associated cash account by the amount of the cost
> basis.
> This is so obviously incorrect that I must be doing something wrong, but I
> can't see what. Searches in the knowledge base and in this newsgroup have
> not helped. Could someone please enlighten me about how to do this
> transaction without affecting the balance of the cash account?
>
> Thanks for any help.