Agere Systems reverse stock split in QD2005

This has been discussed several times both here and on

Google for the answer, I'm tired of writing it.

You could have told me where to find it (I did--not here, but in quickenforum.com, which didn't exist last time I had a question) instead of telling me how tired you were. I think it's time we had guru-monitored faq forums. After all, some answers may work for many questioners, but they may may disappear before I get to ask them!) Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I hope everything gets the right basis through this method. -M

P.S. when I tried to search for agere in Mozilla's Netnews, I get a barf box saying "xpat not supported". Haven't had much luck in finding what this means.....

The courteous thing to do is to research the question before you ask it; did you forget that you are coming here with hat in hand asking others to provide you with a free lunch? The least you could do is some looking on your own before you ask for that meal.

Google "answers" never disappear. And while I think the Quicken forums are also archived at Google; at the moment, there is no reason to believe that the forum answers will disappear from Intuit's site either.

You didn't do anything wrong. The whole idea of a newsgroup is exchanging information and helping others. If someone is going to bitch because you asked a question that someone else asked another time, then that's their problem, not yours. If they're tired of answering the same question, then they should just turn off their damn computer and stop getting so frustrated. Providing someone help when they ask should be a noble gesture...

While I agree with you in principle, people have to understand that there are many of us who follow dozens (or more) of newsgroups and it gets frustrating when people make absolutely no attempt to search for an answer to a question that has been asked (and answered) many, many, many times. Often, a simple search of postings in the newsgroup back a day or two would give the answer. Google is amazing at giving answers to questions. Every now and then it get to you and you "flame" someone for doing it.... That's just how it is..... If someone's flame offends you, put them in your kill file.... Otherwise, get some asbestos underwear... ;-)

On the other hand, I agree that the reaction being discussed (I have that poster in my "kill file") was over the top. I prefer a dozen or so lashes with a wet noodle and then giving the answer... ;-)

I created a new Security (AGR). Then I did a "Corporate Acquisition" for AGR-A and AGR-B with the appropriate 1 to 10 conversion. Then I did two sales of the fractional shares. Worked for me........

Thanks, Hank.

I find myself on both sides of the protocol question. I appreciate the simple, direct answer. I also regret that a simple, direct answer, once given, must be repeated. It is one major fault with newsgroups, that they are so dynamic, they are often useless when it comes to looking for the simple direct answer among all the chaff, silliness, and general noise that obscures them. (I did spend a great deal of time looking for the answer in this newsgroup, but wasn't helped by the failure of the Search function in Mozilla's newsreader.) While monitors may try to keep the noise level down, they do not have a simple job, even where they do exist. And, of course, folks who post problems have different degrees of sophistication and speak in different languages and cultures, as do those who post answers.

For those interested, here's the history of my attempts to solve the original problem. Sadly, I entered what turned out to be undetected nonsense on my first attempt. I haven't done a split in a while, so when it asked me for the ratio, I put it in as "10:1", which Q interpreted as

101 new shares for each old share. There was a lot of undoing to do, since I had many small lots of lucent from which this had all originated. I then went to a pre-split listing, did a screen print, since Q doesn't permit a simple print of lots. I saw what I think your receipe produced and just did removes and adds, filling in the costs and acquisition dates from the screenprint. Hopes this produced the correct remaining data, after the CIL sales were executed. (The "Corporate Acquisition" seems to be a macro, rather than an atomic or molecular process, so maybe it is all correct, now.)

There is still one unanswered question (which belongs in the Mozilla netnews forum): "P.S. when I tried to search for agere in Mozilla's Netnews, I get a barf box saying "xpat not supported". Haven't had much luck in finding what this means.....". Does anyone know the answer to this? -M

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For the future, I think an Investment transaction report could be customized to produce the equivalent of "a simple print of lots".