I have quicken deluxe 2006, I moved some securities from one brokerage account to another. Now in the portfolio view, my cost basis for all the securities I moved shows as zero. I want to enter the proper cost basis in, but can't see how to edit this. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Mafboston.
Did you use QW's 'Shares Transferred Between Accounts' transaction to execute the movement of shares?
This transaction does maintain cost basis.
No, I had online updates of both account that added and subtracted the shared accordingly, but did not establish any relationship between the two apparently.
Probably not the way to do it, but now that it is done, is there a way to hack the cost basis?
Miles
Your solution is to go back and enter the transfer transaction(s) in QW and then you will probably have to delete the downloaded transactions to get the portfolios in balance.
You can then redo the download and, if you get the Shares In/Out in the download, you should be able to match the transactions in your register.
There is no way to 'hack' the cost basis that I am aware of.
I'm assuming you know the cost basis and acquisition date of all the shares; at least in Q2004 you can just edit the transaction where the shares were moved in; there's are fields there for total cost and purchase date.
If the dates/basis are not all the same, you'll probably have to do the "Move Shares In" in a number of transactions, each with a different basis/purchase date.
Cheers, AndyG
All the aquisition costs and dates are still in the old account I have hidden. Thanks for the tips, I might just have to create new transactions to move and sync again, it looks like.
MAF
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