Re: transfer of shares by XB77
XB77
Sat Sep 13 10:45:24 CDT 2003
You are not transferring shares. You are converting Investor Class shares
into Admiral Class shares. There is no change in basis. Your original
Investor Class purchase dates still apply. There are no capital gains or
losses. The best way to account for these conversions in Money is to just
change the name (symbol, etc.) of the security if both share classes have
the same price. If not, then you must account for the change in pricing and
number of shares by doing a stock split. Typically these are not integer
splits. Thus you will need to take the ratio out to some large numbers to
get the resultant number of shares to be correct. Dick Watson has a nice
little algorithm for finding the best split ratio. Cal Leamer might be able
to come up with a good ratio also.