Mutual Fund - Record Adjusted Lot Transaction

Considerations

Use this page to manually record an adjusted lot transaction for a mutual fund into the GainsKeeper system. If you are entering a holding and have already adjusted your shares and cost for a corporate action, entering an Adjusted Lot transaction will prevent the system from adjusting your holding again.

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 Mutual Fund to access the Mutual Fund - Record Transaction page. From this page, select Adjusted Lot from the Action drop-down list. The Mutual Fund - Record Adjusted Lot 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 Adjusted Lot. To change this, select a different transaction from the Action drop-down list. The fields that display depend on the transaction that is selected.

  3. Enter the original Purchase Date of the fund. You can also click the Calendar icon and select the appropriate purchase date from the calendar that displays.

  4. Do one of the following:

  5. Select the type of security from the Security Type drop-down list. By default, this field is set to Mutual Fund for this transaction.

  6. Enter the number of shares owned as of the baseline date in the Shares as of Baseline Date field.

  7. Enter the Baseline Date A benchmark date used as a basis for comparison., which is the last date that you updated your holdings and cost basis.

  8. Enter the total cost of the shares as of the baseline date in the Total Cost as of Baseline Date (mm/dd/yyyy) field.

  9. To record the Adjusted Lot 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 Mutual Fund - Record Adjusted Lot Transaction page.

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

 

 

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