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Hi
I am transferring my historical records to this spreadsheet. I was lucky enough to inherit some shares a while ago.

How should I record them? Thus far I have recorded them as a purchase on the day they were inherited because it provides some sort of benchmark however sometimes I feel that this an unduly harsh way of recording my good fortune.

Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

Hello,
I was in this position a few years ago.
My view was that what mattered to me was the date and then value, that would apply should I need to calculate the gain for Capital Gains tax purposes when they are later sold.
There are three possible dates that could apply.
- Date of the death of the person leaving the shares
- Date that Probate was granted on that person's estate
- Date that the shares were recorded as transferred to my name

The HMRC summary information about CGT and inherited shares says the date of death applies, so that is what I used.
https://www.gov.uk/tax-property-money-s ... and-shares

I have subsequently sold some of them and used this value when computing my CGT liability and included the calculations in my Tax Return.

Just another naive question.

How does one record DRIP. As buy or dividend and buy?

From a tax point of view it is a dividend and then an investment of that amount of cash in more shares

The dividend will be liable to income tax and the cost of the additional investment will then increase your acquisition cost of the total holding for capital gains tax purposes.

I have put all my historical data on now but the sheet does not seem to accept the Centrica epic.Any suggestions?

Bena48 wrote:I have put all my historical data on now but the sheet does not seem to accept the Centrica epic.Any suggestions?

CNA works fine for me.

What do you mean by "does not seem to accept"

--kiloran

The trades are entered as CNA. The cell changes it to CAN.CAN is entered on the current sheet. No current price is forthcoming when 'get prices' is activated.

The problem is that the cell in the trade sheet does not accept CNA .

Bena48 wrote:
The problem is that the cell in the trade sheet does not accept CNA

This is the auto-correct 'feature' of Excel getting in the way.

Go to -

Tools -> AutoCorrect

Find the entry that says 'Replace: cna With: can'

Delete it.

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

Thanks. You saved much head scratching

Hi

Are there plans to up date this spreadsheet? It is showing similar errors to Hyptus.

Bena48 wrote:Hi

Are there plans to up date this spreadsheet? It is showing similar errors to Hyptus.

Yes, it will definately be fixed. It'll just take time due to HYPTUSS issues and non-LMF things that are taking up my time

--kiloran

Hi

Hate to nag but is there a time line for the repair of this sheet. I have a number of divi's queuing up to be recorded.

Bena48 wrote:Hi

Hate to nag but is there a time line for the repair of this sheet. I have a number of divi's queuing up to be recorded.

Don't worry about nagging

It's now been fixed. See viewtopic.php?f=27&t=8924

Sorry about the delay. We found a strange problem with Yahoo, and I've been away for the past week. StepOne has confirmed that the new version now appears to work OK, and if he's happy, I'm happy

--kiloran

Thanks. Fantastic.

Hi
A few shares are not updating namely BT,ICAP & AGR. Does anyone know of a quick fix?

Bena48 wrote:Hi
A few shares are not updating namely BT,ICAP & AGR. Does anyone know of a quick fix?

Looks OK to me. Using Windows 10, Excel 2016 and StepOne Portfolio v3-1

--kiloran