[GNC] Stock Merger

[David Carlson]

You are very close!  Yes, you do need to create a new security and security
account under your broker account for AMD first.  Then you could re enter
or possibly just edit your split transaction to output in AMD instead of
XLNX.

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 10:31 PM Al <vanilla.sources at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm having trouble getting my head around setting up a stock merger. The
> merger in question is the recent Xilinx AMD merger.
>
> Pre-merger I held 800 shares of XLNX. After the merger I have received
> 1.7234 shares of AMD for each XLNX share (1378.72 shares). I received
> $85.65 "Cash in Lieu" for the .72 shares leaving a total of 1378 shares.
>
> Using the Gnucash Stock Split Assistant to the best of my abilities
> results in me now having 1378 shares of XLNX along with the $85.65
> correctly added to the cash account at my brokerage.
>
> So how does XLNX become AMD? Am I supposed to create a new AMD entry and
> transfer the shares somehow? Or maybe just change the name and ticker
> symbol?
>
> Any help greatly appreciated!
>
> Al
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David Carlson