Buying shares of a stock is causing Quicken 2017 to calculate an insane cost basis
AbeK
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After buying 85 shares of Vivendi (bringing the total to 303 shares), Quicken Home & Business 2017 calculates an insane cost basis for the shares. If I remove the transaction, the cost basis seems to work fine. As soon as I add the transaction again, the insane cost basis returns.
Here's the transaction that I entered:
Here's the cost basis report of Vivendi before the transaction was entered:
And here's what it looks like after the transaction is entered (note the crazy cost basis):
I've tried running file validate/repair, but it neither reports that there's a problem nor solves it.
I've tried changing the number of shares bought, the price, and even the date purchased, and it still results in a crazy cost basis.
Any ideas?
Here's the transaction that I entered:
Here's the cost basis report of Vivendi before the transaction was entered:
And here's what it looks like after the transaction is entered (note the crazy cost basis):
I've tried running file validate/repair, but it neither reports that there's a problem nor solves it.
I've tried changing the number of shares bought, the price, and even the date purchased, and it still results in a crazy cost basis.
Any ideas?
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Click the little [+] box next to the company name in the Portfolio view to see lot detail.
Does any of the lot detail transactions look screwy?
I suspect that one of the previously recorded transactions (buy, sell, dividend, etc.) may have gotten a bit flipped and needs to be corrected.
When doing file validation, did you check the "Rebuild investing lots" option, too?0 -
There does not appear to be anything strange in the lots, and the security report of buys and sells checks out. I also ran the Validate/Repair Rebuild Investing Lots function and it still shows the huge negative cost basis. I'm stumped.0
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I just fixed the problem. I opened every historical transaction and reentered it. For every sell, I re-specified the lots to sell. After doing this, it's all working again. Go figure. Thanks for your help, UKR. You prompted me to check each lot and transaction.0
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Data corruption, why do I suspect that Q17 is doing a better job of showing how bad the earlier versions where in protecting our data? I've had several "weird" incidents since upgrading similar to this.AbeK said:I just fixed the problem. I opened every historical transaction and reentered it. For every sell, I re-specified the lots to sell. After doing this, it's all working again. Go figure. Thanks for your help, UKR. You prompted me to check each lot and transaction.
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I believe my lots were corrupted when I did a share transfer between accounts. When re-entered the transfer and did a manual lot selection it solved the problem.0
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