Re: Looking for advice entering an investment transaction with negative shares.

Mennē Software Solutions <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.finance.moneydance.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
BTW I forgot to mention that a Div/Reinvest transaction in Moneydance will
not alter your cash balance, so the "Amount:   ($40.92)" you wrote is a bit
confusing. If you cash balance decreased in the first transaction, it was
really a Buy and the two transactions could be combined into a single
Div/Reinvest transaction.

Good luck!

--Kevin

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Mennē Software Solutions <
[email protected]> wrote:

> >Any ideas on how this transaction should be entered in MD?
> To me it looks like the second transaction should be modeled as a Sell,
> since I believe your share balance should decrease and your cash balance
> should increase. There is no such thing as an inverted dividend
> reinvestment, so Moneydance doesn't support a negative value. Another
> approach is to zero out both transactions or delete them each time you
> download, but personally I would prefer the Sell transaction with a good
> descriptive memo to help me remember what was going on.
>
> Good luck!
>
> --Kevin
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 6:32 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> My IRA is composed of several Mutual funds and a transaction was made for
>> one of these funds that negated the original transaction. I have not been
>> able to figure out how to enter the corrective transaction.
>>
>> The original transaction was made on 10/01/2010 and the corrective
>> transaction was made on 10/05/2010. I have included a summary of the two
>> transactions in question below.
>>
>> The first transaction I know how to do and happens all the time. The
>> second transaction I have not seen before. When I tried to enter the second
>> transaction by entering a -5.707 for the number of shares (Qty)  and $40.92
>> for the amount the cash balance ends up being short by $40.92.
>>
>> Any ideas on how this transaction should be entered in MD?
>>
>>
>> Date:   10/01/2010
>> Trans Type:   Div/Reinvest
>> Fund:  GOLDMAN SACHS HIGH YIELD FUND
>> Qty:    5.707
>> Price:  $7.170
>> Amount:   ($40.92)
>>
>>
>> Date:   10/05/2010       Reinvest     Fund A   (5.707)    $7.170
>>  $40.92
>> Trans Type:   Div/Reinvest
>> Fund:  GOLDMAN SACHS HIGH YIELD FUND
>> Qty:   (5.707)
>> Price:  $7.170
>> Amount:  $40.92
>>
>>
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