Discrepancy in stock amounts

One reason would be that you have slightly less than 500 shares (like 499.95). Another would be that the dates don't match in the two screens (eg, you're trying to sell the security on June 4th, but are looking at your holdings on July 4th).

If you have Q2005, check the box which says "all holdings". You'll see then exactly how many shares Quicken things you have on the date specified.

Another reason is the way brokerages and mutual funds report transactions. my investment brokers don't report exact numbers for shares in a transaction. Often I only get 3 places when they track the accuracy to 6 places....

In Q05, just add a transaction to Sell and select the "Sell All Shares" checkbox. As an added bonus, it will show you the actual numbers.

I do it this way all the time

Thank you both for your replies. Sorry it took me so long to respond. The discrepancies are not small. Its about 540 shares out of 560. If when setting up the sell transaction, I check the box that say "all holdings" Quicken says I own about 20 shares. If I look at all of the transactions shown in the Security Detail view it adds up to 560, and

Changing the dates doesn't seem to help the problem either. I am beginning to think the file has been corrupted.

Do an Investment Transaction report for "all dates" for that security.

John:

An investment transaction report for all dates for the security in question produces a report which shows the same 20 shares. Thus it is only the security detail view that shows all of the shares, which as I mentioned is the correct amount of shares actually held in the brokerage account. In reviewing the transactions shown on the security detail screen it shows the original buy, and the reinvested dividends, and no sales, which is correct. I don't understand why the investment transaction report only shows a few of the reinvested dividends totaling the 20 shares.

Very frustrating. I would spend less time on this if I was tracking my finances using an abacus. : (

Dennis

I'm really not sure what is happening.

First make sure you do not have two securities with almost exactly the same name.

Then I would pick one of the reinvestment transactions in your register that does not show up in the transaction report, and delete it, then re-enter it. Then look at the transaction report again to see if that transaction reappears. If so, I suspect you will have to do the same thing with the rest of the transactions that do not show up in the report. If not, I'm about out of ideas.

John

I finally figured it out. I didn't have 2 securities with similar names; I had two investment accounts with similar names!; one of which I had "hidden" because I wasn't using it anymore. I didn't realize that there were still some shares left in the account. So of course from the security list I saw all of the shares in all accounts, but when looking at the transaction register for the account that was showing not all of the shares were there.

Thanks for all your help.!!

Dennis