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Posted by John Pollard on June 28, 2008, 9:14 am
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Caryl wrote:
> I am using Quicken 2008 and have had no problems with it until
> now,
> and I do not know if these is a problem with the program or
> something
> that I am doing wrong. I have IE 7.
>
> I use one step update daily to update seven brokerage
> accounts. Two of
> the accounts are not supported by Quicken, so I have to add
> new
> transactions manually, which is not much of a problem as there
> is not
> much trading done in those particular accounts. I am trying to
> add a 2
> for 1 stock split which took place last month in one of these
> accounts, but I cannot get the number of shares to change.
> Help
> indicates that 2 should be put for new shares and 1 for old
> shares on
> the transaction form, but that does not change the total of
> shares in
> the portfolio. I have also tried putting the actual number of
> new
> shares and old shares shares in the transaction window, but
> there is
> still no change in the total number of shares.
The first thing to do is to note whether the number of shares
Quicken currently shows you holding is the number of shares from
before the split or from after the split.
Downloading (quotes) usually downloads splits: the split may
already have been applied to your holdings.
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John Pollard
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