Portfolio Value Report Contains Incorrect Quote/Price For Security

Jul 24, 2007 2 Replies

I've upgraded to Quicken Personal Plus 2007 to take advantage of the Investing Centre. After adding all details of my portfolio, I have been looking at all the available reports.



I noticed on the Portfolio Value report that the Quote/Price column contains an incorrect value for securities with multiple purchases and different values.



For Example:



For security ABC 400 shares were purchased on 12/02 @ $1.28 ($512) 1500 shares were purchased on 21/04 @ $1.19 ($1785)



So, on the Portfolio Value report, I would expect to see the following entry with a Quote/Price value equal to the average cost of purchasing all the shares.



Security Shares Quote/Price Balance ABC 1900 1.209 2297



What I actually see is



ABC 1900 1.19 2261



Where the Quote/Price value is equal to the value of the last purchase price.



Can anyone tell me whether my assumptions are correct, and if so, how I can get the Portfolio Value report to include all purchase prices.



Regards, Phil



OK, I think I've seen my own mistake.

The price in the Portfolio Value report is showing the value as of a given date. These securities where purchased back in 2004, and the quicken price history doesn't appear to go back that far. Therefore the report has used the last know value.

Therefore, is there anyway to manually enter the value of a security at a specified date. This would fix the report for me.

Regards, Phil.

Well, I managed to answer my own question again.

Go to the Investment Centre and click on a security. There is an Update menu option which allows manul updates of the price history.

I've spent 2 days trying to work this out, and as soon as I explained the problem here it all fell into place!!

Funny old game.

Regards, Phil.

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