Stock - Record Sell LIFO Transaction

Considerations

Use this page to manually record a last in, first out (LIFO) sell transaction for a stock.

Click one of the icons above to view either a list of the transactions available for that category, or click the Baseline Holdings icon to access the Add New Baseline Holdings page.

 

Procedure

From the Manually Record Trades page, click the Stock icon to access the Stock - Record Transaction page. From this page, select Sell LIFO from the Action drop-down list. The Stock - Record Sell LIFO Transaction page displays.

  1. Select the account to which to record this transaction, from the In Account drop-down list. If you only have one account, this drop-down list is not displayed.

  2. By default, the Action on this page is set to Sell LIFO. To change this, select a different transaction from the Action drop-down list. The fields that display depend on the transaction that is selected. To record a sell transaction, using the Specific ID method, enter a Stock - Record Sell by ID transaction.

  3. Enter the date of the transaction in the Transaction Date (mm/dd/yyyy) field. You can also click the Calendar icon and select the appropriate transaction date from the calendar that displays.

  4. Do one of the following:

  1. Select the type of security from the Security Type drop-down list. By default, this field is set to Stock.

  2. Enter the number of shares in the Shares.

  3. To calculate the Total Proceeds of the transaction, do one of the following:

  4. To record the Sell LIFO transaction, click the Record button. To record the transaction and continue to enter additional transactions, click the Record & Repeat button. To leave this page, without recording the transaction, click the Cancel button.

 

Example

Click here to view an example of the Stock - Record Sell LIFO Transaction page.

Click any of the numbered areas below to view the procedure step for the selected field.

 

 

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