Recording a Reverse Split

Richard Lindgren rlindgren74 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 16:43:37 EDT 2015


Thanks for that information, I will try that.
On Jun 4, 2015 10:26 AM, "Colin Law" <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4 June 2015 at 14:52, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> >
> >> On Jun 4, 2015, at 3:39 AM, Robin Chattopadhyay <robinraymn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Follow the same procedure as a regular split, except that the ratio is a
> >> fraction less than 1. For example, a 1-for-2 reverse split is 0.5, or a
> >> 1-for-5 reverse split is 0.2.
> >
> > Just use a negative number for the shares in the Stock Split Assistant.
> For example, if you have 5000 shares of XYZ and they do a 1-for-5 reverse
> split, tell the Assistant that the split is for -4000 shares.
>
> Suddenly this conversation makes sense, it is about stock splits, not
> transaction splits.
>
> Colin
>


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