Re: Distribution Data

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In Reply to: Distribution Data posted by Jim on June 27, 1999 at 08:36:41:

: Initially, I am not using FM for my portfolio data - I make extensive use of Quicken and a rather elaborate Excel Spreadsheet I've developed - I'm using FM for it's Charting and Graphing capabilities. I do however input per share distribution data on the funds I track - NAV + Dist. Here's the problem. I put in data for year end, Dec 98 as an example. I put in data for 1st Qtr 99. Since I have no shares - FM asks for and I provide per share data. If I go back and edit 4th qtr data, 1st qtr data is changed to reflect 4th qtr data. Does any of this make sense?? Is there a bug?? Am I the Bug!!! Mark and Company - Help. and Thanks again. Four questions total - enough for one day - Hope I'm not a pest - I'm excited by the possibilities of FM - It's a wonderful tool. Have a Great Day all!!! Jim

Hi Jim,
I tried this out, and you are correct, this does look like a bug.
When entering distributions per share manually, and then when you edit
one later, the distribution per share is getting updated for the wrong
distribution. Thanks for the bug report, and we'll get this fixed for
the next release. In the mean time, you may want to just record a fake
1 share purchase, so that FM will automatically calculate the dist per share,
and you can avoid this bug.

Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley

Fund Manager for Windows 3.1x/95/98/NT

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