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Old 01-01-2007, 07:29 PM
Dick Watson
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Default Re: Be very careful using Money (2006) tax related data!!!

Was a split involved?

As with all software used for these kinds of purposes, Money's results need
validation. I won't defend it and cannot say what you are seeing. But I
certainly have seen bugs in Money, so not much surprises me.

To the comment "For a long time I learned to hate Microsoft products
quality. Money is no better in that respect." I must ask: what software
vendor's quality do you find better? Adobe's? The OpenSource stuff? Intuit?
Roxio? WordPerfect? Novell? I'm not saying Microsoft's is great by any
means. But it sure isn't the worst.

"Henryk Birecki" <soaringpilot[at]sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> For a long time I learned to hate Microsoft products quality. Money is
> no better in that respect. Capital gains reports that you may want to
> use for tax purposes are patently wrong. Here is an example:
> I was putting money periodically into a mutual fund for past ten
> years. At the end of this year I decided to sell it because I racked
> up price appreciation loss and wanted to cover some other capital
> gains. Money 2006 was showing this correctly in portfolio view. I sold
> the fund and recorded the sell transaction (specified "by lot"). Money
> proceeded to tell me that I had an absurd amount of capital gains (not
> loss). I asked for capital gains report. It proceeded to list all the
> transactions for this fund with completely wrong cost basis (huge
> majority of my transactions were done periodically at the same
> amount). Money decided to use some fictional price per share for all
> purchase transactions.



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Old 01-01-2007, 06:05 PM
Henryk Birecki
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Default Be very careful using Money (2006) tax related data!!!

For a long time I learned to hate Microsoft products quality. Money is
no better in that respect. Capital gains reports that you may want to
use for tax purposes are patently wrong. Here is an example:

I was putting money periodically into a mutual fund for past ten
years. At the end of this year I decided to sell it because I racked
up price appreciation loss and wanted to cover some other capital
gains. Money 2006 was showing this correctly in portfolio view. I sold
the fund and recorded the sell transaction (specified "by lot"). Money
proceeded to tell me that I had an absurd amount of capital gains (not
loss). I asked for capital gains report. It proceeded to list all the
transactions for this fund with completely wrong cost basis (huge
majority of my transactions were done periodically at the same
amount). Money decided to use some fictional price per share for all
purchase transactions.

Henryk Birecki
 

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