Accounting question: Switching retirement account managers

[Michael DeBusk]

On 2013-10-12 20:47, David Carlson wrote:

> If you just do as you are suggesting,  using the corresponding prices
> for the sale and purchase, your cost basis, if it matters, remains the
> same, does it not?

It would, but it seems to me that the unrealized capital gains would 
show up in reports as income for this year. It wouldn't break anything 
in the real world, I suppose.