ShareManager Share Portfolio Management Software

A: Enter the initial price in the usual way. When a second instalment is made add the amount to the initial price making appropriate reference to the transaction in the 'Notes' area. Ensure that you have entered the 'deemed' purchase date according to the company prospectus. You may need to check this with your broker.

A: The 'Trusts & Other Income' file allows for a range of income from Trusts, Foreign, Tax-free and deferred, etc.

A: Go to the Company 'Details' screen, select 'Company Holdings', and then select the required investor by clicking on the Investor Code field and choosing from the pop-up list. The company selected here does not matter as you are only concerned to select the investor. You then go to Utilities, select 'Copy Stock Quantities and Prices', and then paste in your spreadsheet. Repeat this for each investor. (version 3+ users have a convenient investor selector box from the 'Utilities' screen).

A: You can get daily closing prices from many sources, Ozemail, Paritech Systems (Melbourne), and many others, some free others you pay. Bear in mind that the only prices of any value in ShareManager software are for the stocks you currently hold. The valuations then work out from the imported data (procedure in manual).

Most people have less than 20 stocks, and it is far easier to simply add these manually from the newspaper into the Company file 'List Current' button (List screen). Downloading via the internet is really for investor managers handling large stock numbers, and for those who wish to chart the data (which ShareManager does NOT handle). From the 'Utilities' screen select 'Up-date prices manually', and then enter each company price shown in the list. (Note that using the command-1 keys will scroll through the list as an alternative to using the mouse. Clicking the mouse on the underlined heading will do the same.)

A: Do in two parts:

1. Stocks Held at given date, say 30-6-2000, and still Held.
   Open the Stocks file Entry screen
   Click on 'Specify' in the 'Find' area.
   Set investor
   Set Status field to 'Held'
   Set Pur Date to <30-6-2000
   Perform Find
   Go List & Print
2. Stocks Held at 30-6-2000 and since Sold
   From the Stocks Entry screen (any record entry) click 'Sale Entry'. Click on 'Specify' in the 'Find' area.
   Set Sold Date to >30-6-2000
   Set investor code as required
   Set Pur. Date to <30-6-2000
   Perform Find
   Go List & Print

(The lists in steps 1 & 2 now provide your stocks. Do not use the Reports screen options, as this will only deal with currently Held Stocks.)

A: Use the menus 'Edit -> Preferences -> Document'. Then switch spelling off.

A: Both situations are dealt with as a re-structure of your holdings. The unit quantity and price needs to be altered , the total cost remaining un-changed. This is a simple calculation for a single stock parcel, but the 'Ready Reckoner' in the Utilities screen (Stocks file) does this calculation for multiple parcels nicely as follows:

Select Ready reckoner - Re-Structure. This is best illustrated with an example: You own 1,000 shares purchased at $5.37 and a re-structure (or takeover) you are allocated 350 'new' shares. Enter a number for your 'New Shares' and also the 'Current Shares, and on the left side of the table 5.37 and 1000 under UNIT PRICE and QUANTITY. The new Quantity and prices shows on the right side of the table (ie. 350 units @ $15.343, total $5,370).

You now need to edit the original purchase entry in the Stocks file, keep the purchase date unchanged, also the brokerage, but alter the quantity and price (also company ASX code in a takeover). Make a note in the area provided making reference to the changes. Typing under 'Transaction description 'Re-structure' would also be good.

Your reports will show the new company with the original purchase date, and transaction history will show the 'description' entry.

A: Before entering new market prices, transfer the current stock prices to a spreadsheet or Word document using the following procedure: Go to the Company file, Utility screen, set the investor for the stocks held, and click on the action button 'Copy Stock Quantities & Prices'. You then go to your spreadsheet or Word document and paste. You will need to manipulate your prices data by dates to give you a suitable format to expand with each new entry.