Price Source for Mutual Fund and Stock

[Charles Day]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Yogesh Agrawal <agrawaly at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > "Yogesh Agrawal" <agrawaly at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am into another problem, I have bought one mutual fund over a period
> > of
> > > time, on a monthly basis
> > > and then I sold it partially.
> > >
> > > Here is what I have in the account register
> > >
> > > Date             No.of Unit      NAV       Total
> > > 12/5/2003      36.075          27.72      1000
> > > 01/08/2004     16.171         30.9195    500
> > > 02/08/2004     16.319         30.6391    500
> > > 03/08/2004     16.077         31.1003    500
> > >
> > > Now I have sold 52.246 (36.075 + 16.171) unit
> > > So I am left with 32.396 (16.319+16.077) unit
> > >
> > > I am expecting my balance sheet to show 32.296 unit for 1000
> > > whereas it shows 32.296 unit for 956.85 ( I calculated it is nothing
> but
> > > based on weighted average).
> > > What should I do to show 1000?
> >
> > When you sold did you add in the gain/loss splits as described
> > in the documentation?
> >
>
> Yes I did.
>

I'm joining this discussion a bit late, but why would you expect it to show
1000? The balance sheet report is probably using a weighted average of all
exchanges between your fund and your currency (5 exchanges in total).  What
price did you use for the sell, by the way?

-Charles


>
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Yogesh
> >
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> > -derek
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