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Money: How to do a Reverse Stock Split

Article ID: 139014

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007


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SYMPTOMS

Money allows you to enter stock splits. Occasionally, a negative stock split may occur because fewer shares exist after the split than existed before the split.

In this case, if you enter a decimal fraction (such as .05) for the number of shares received for each share in a stock split, you receive one of the following error messages. In Money 99 or earlier, you may receive the following error message:
Please enter a number between 1 and 65,535.
In Money 2000 or later, you may receive the following error message:
Please enter a whole number between 1 and 65,535.

RESOLUTION

Multiply both the shares received and the shares surrendered by an integer that converts the fractional number into a whole number.

For example, if a negative stock split grants 0.024 shares for each share, multiply both numbers by 1,000 to give the result that shares will be split 24 shares for every 1,000 shares.

For more information about stock splits and Microsoft Money, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

117333 Results of Entering a Stock Split in Money


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