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

[Gordon Alley]

I only occasionally have been able to satisfy that Lot Matching
dialog. I think the problem occurs when there has been a stock split.
I no longer set the Lot Matching option in order to avoid the hastle.

-Gordon

On 9/1/07, Jeff DuMonthier <jjdmon at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.


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Gordon B. Alley
http://www.gordonalley.com