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- INFORMATION ABOUT SECURITY SALES RELEASE 2.11 PAGE 1 OF 3
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- When selling securities, the way in which shares (or other units) to be sold
- are allocated to shares you purchased on different dates may be important not
- only to you, but also to the taxing authorities (both Federal and State).
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- The Portfolio Analyzer can use several different methods to perform this allo-
- cation. Your tax advisor should be consulted as to which method is to be used.
- In general, you should probably pick one method and stick to it for all sales
- of securities.
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- Sales of any securities in this portfolio will not affect any other portfolios.
- If you want to sell all of your IBM stock in all portfolios, you will have to
- sell in each portfolio separately.
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- The program will ask you for the number of shares to sell (unless you press E
- for "entire" holding), the date of sale and the proceeds of sale. Use the net
- proceeds of sale, after deduction of commission and other expenses. This in-
- formation comes from your brokerage firm or mutual fund statement. You can put
- your calculator away; the program will do all the necessary arithmetic.
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- INFORMATION ABOUT SECURITY SALES PAGE 2 OF 3
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- To select the method of allocating shares sold to existing purchases, press one
- of the keys S, E, L or F. Or, press the Esc key to cancel the (S)ell function.
- Note: if there is only one open purchase, the (S) option is chosen for you.
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- S = Selected purchase. This function allows you to sell all or part of just
- the selected purchase. You can select any individual purchase which has
- not already been sold. If you specify a number of shares (or other units)
- less than the number of shares in the selected purchase, the program will
- automatically divide the existing purchase into two parts and sell just the
- appropriate part.
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- E = Entire holding. This function allows you to sell all purchases of the
- indicated security in this portfolio (other portfolios are not affected).
- The program will automatically calculate the total number of shares on
- hand, and allocate the sale proceeds among the different purchases accor-
- ding to the number of shares in each. It will also handle rounding errors
- to insure the individual proceeds of sale all add up to the specified total
- amount. Of course, purchases that had already been sold are left intact.
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- INFORMATION ABOUT SECURITY SALES PAGE 3 OF 3
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- F = FIFO (First-In, First-Out). The shares you are selling are allocated to
- existing purchases starting with the first (earliest) one. If all of that
- purchase is to be sold, remaining shares will be allocated to the next
- (later) one, and so on.
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- L = LIFO (Last-In, First-Out). The shares you are selling are allocated to
- existing purchases starting with the last (most recent) one. If all of that
- purchase is to be sold, remaining shares will be allocated to the previous
- (earlier) one, and so on.
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- For example, assume you own 200 shares purchased on each of these three dates:
- Jan. 2, 1987; Feb. 6, 1987; and March 6, 1987; for a total of 600 shares. Now,
- assume you wish to sell 350 shares.
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- On a FIFO basis, you will be selling all of the shares purchased on Jan. 2 and
- 150 of the shares purchased on Feb. 6. On a LIFO basis, you will be selling
- all of the shares purchased on March 6 and 150 of the shares purchased on Feb.
- 6. In either case, the program will automatically divide the Feb. 6 purchase
- into two separate parts, one with 150 shares to be sold and the other with the
- remaining 50 shares.