[moneydance] Security amount field has different meaning for buy and sell in MD579/Mac OS 10.3.9

[Jeff DuMonthier]

Ok. I found the answer to both of these and it's the same issue.  As a 
result of a cash and stock merger, I received shares of a security I 
already owned in addition to cash for another security.  I entered it 
as a sale of one security for the cash and a buy of the other for $0.  
Since it's an IRA account I'm not really tracking the cost basis, which 
Moneydance can't do anyway.  Everything was fine until I sold the 
security I received more of in the merger.  Since the buy amount for 
the additional shares was $0 they didn't show up in the lot matching 
form.  I went back and edited the buy for $0 without changing it (so I 
thought), but Moneydance probably filled in the price and amount field 
for me from the history and I didn't watch carefully enough to notice.  
Since the amount was now greater than 0 it appeared in the lot matching 
form and fixed that problem.  However, it also subtracted hundreds of 
dollars by changing a transaction which had already been reconciled a 
ways back, hence the missing money.  It's quite a relief to find that 
MD is not hopelessly corrupting the lots like Quicken did, but now I'm 
wondering what is the correct way to enter things like cash and stock 
mergers, or at least what will work in Moneydance?

On Sep 1, 2007, at 10:35 PM, Jeff DuMonthier wrote:

> ...
>  my IRA account
> which was reconciled as recently as two months back now seems to be
> missing a few hundred dollars as far back as I care to look,
...
> I've also had a couple instances recently of being unable to match lots
> after selling a security because a buy didn't show up in the lot
> matching form.