Caryl,
Thanks for your comments.
I'll buy your explanation about why current value items and cost items appear in the same column. It's a confusing report design but sometimes saving column space is more important than clarity.
However, if Cost Basis includes commissions and Price doesn't then my Cost Basis/Shares value should be greater than, not less than, the listed Price. The difference remains unresolved, but I don't really care at this point because the Price number seems to be close enough for my purposes. Using a technique I recently learned from Ken Blake of this group, I now state that I have no further interest in this issue.
However, I remain interested in any ideas about how to correct the hundreds of incorrect lot cost bases in my Quicken DB. These are huge discrepancies, e.g. some values differ by an order of magnitude from the correct value. When for spinoffs Quicken incorrectly subtracted a fixed dollar amount per share from every lot, rather than a fixed percentage of the cost of each lot, it often leaves a drastically low, perhaps even negative, cost basis for the cheaper lots. It amazes me that other users haven't raised the roof on this issue.
Jerry
I have found that the average cost per share includes any commission paid for that lot, and the quote/price figure is the actual cost of one share, without any commission added. That is why dividing the lot by the number of shares gives you a different figure than that in the quote/price column.
I am not sure, but maybe because the quote is the current value and the price in the name of the column refers to the price that you paid for the stock.
We do a lot of stock trading and if we want exact figures we go to the websites of our brokerage firms, where we know that the figures are correct to the penny.
Caryl