Not finding this in past threads so ... here goes what should be a basic task question.
I have an ancient traditional IRA I'm trying to put in FM. Rather than try to find / enter old history, I just "started" the account in FM with data from the 1/2015 statement, and hand entered the few reinvested distributions until current. Share count and cost basis updated fine and reconciles with the statements.
October I took an $8,000 required distribution. I entered it as a sell of a value of $8,000, and the number of shares per the confirmation receipt.
October's statement arrives and my month-end cost basis is off. The statement says the cost basis was $8,277.41.
I see the differences between specifying it as a loaded and non-loaded fund, but what I still am not finding is a way to tell FM what the cost basis was. It would be my guess that the cost basis and the funds received would never be the same on a sale transaction. So ... it seems I'm missing something important / basic, since now that I go poking around I don't see anyway to define the cost basis in a sell transaction for any asset type.
Thanks.