Re: Missing Interest

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Posted by Mark on July 27, 2007 at 12:19:56:

In Reply to: Missing Interest posted by Av on July 27, 2007 at 01:56:44:

: Hello,
: I entered all the buy and sell transactions for a fund. Then I did an Internet Retrieve of prices. That got all the dividends etc that were received. All this tallied correctly with my broker's account of things. However, my broker has 2 additional entries called "Interest" that FundManager didn't retrieve. The values are small, but it is causing a discrepancy between what the broker reports and what FundManager reports. Any ideas what this "Interest" transaction is and how to make FundManager retrieve it?

: Thanks,

: Av

Hi Av,

When retrieving historical prices/dividends from Yahoo (Historical), it will only get dividends/splits. There was probably some interest income distribution paid also. You can just record these as distributions of the type "interest income". If you got more shares, check the "Reinvested" option, and enter how many shares you bought with this money.

Retrieving dividend data from Yahoo is not as reliable/accurate as getting your actual transactions directly from your broker. If you are with a broker that offers this feature, you should try to retrieve transactions directly from them. See:

http://www.fundmanagersoftware.com/tintrtv.html

for more on this feature.

Thanks,
Mark
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