Stock - Record Merger (vol) Transaction

Considerations

Use this page to manually record a voluntary corporate action merger transaction for a stock. A merger is the joining of two or more corporations into a single corporation.

Click one of the icons above to view either a list of the transactions available for that category, or click the Baseline Holdings icon to access the Add New Baseline Holdings page.

 

Procedure

From the Manually Record Trades page, click the Stock Voluntary Corporate Action icon to access the Stock - Record Exchange (vol) Transaction page. From this page, select Merger (vol) from the Action drop-down list. The Stock - Record Merger (vol) Transaction page displays.

  1. Select the account to which to record this transaction, from the In Account drop-down list. If you only have one account, this drop-down list is not displayed.

  2. By default, the Action on this page is set to Merger (vol). To change this, select a different transaction from the Action drop-down list. The fields that display depend on the transaction that is selected.

  3. Select the tax status from the Taxability drop-down list. Click here for more information on tax status.

  4. Enter the date of the transaction in the Transaction Date (mm/dd/yyyy) field. You can also click the Calendar icon and select the appropriate transaction date from the calendar that displays.

  5. Do one of the following:

  6. Enter the number of shares merged in the Shares Merged field.

  7. Enter the amount of cash received from the merger in the Cash Received field.

  8. Enter the following information in the fields provided:

  9. To record the Merger transaction, click the Record button. To record the transaction and continue to enter additional transactions, click the Record & Repeat button. To leave this page, without recording the transaction, click the Cancel button.

 

Example

Click here to view an example of the Stock - Record Merger (vol) Transaction page.

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