Help adding transactions

English Transactions
1

I feel I need some help with the basics to make sure Im doing this right.
I have a transaction report from UK Hargreaves Lansdown in the following format for an accumulating fund/trust

Date Description Unit Cost Quantity Value
12/12/2019 income reinvestment - share X n/a n/a 72.45
12/12/2019 share X purchase 15.74 4 -64.27

I have contract notes for the 2nd transaction, but nothing for the first.
Is the first transaction the dividend and the second just a buy from the dividend income?
If I try and add the first as a dividend, Portfolio Performance wants me to add the #units etc, but that line in the statement doesnt show this, does that matter?

Probably really obvious, but just want to make sure Im doing this right

2

This shouks be answered by UK Hargreaves Lansdown, we could only guess. But this is no acceptable outcome.

3

Maybe the first line is the dividend for the share.
Second line ist the reinvestment, but they dont buy fractional shares?

Then you should find the difference of ~ 8 on your reference account.

Just a wild guess :slight_smile:
Stefan

4

the difference of 4x 15.74 is the transaction fee (£1.31)
the £72.45 is what appears in cash that is then used to buy the shares.

5

Still doesn’t add up:
(4 times 15,47)+1,31 = 63,19
4 times (15,47+1,31) = 68,2

I second @Rafa : Ask your broker :slight_smile:

PS Can´t use * :slight_smile:

6

the buy does add up…£15.74 x 4 =£62.96, + £1.31 = £64.27

7

sorry, got a typo there in my calculation 15,47 is not 15,74 :man_shrugging:

8

If I just add the buy transactions as inbound deliveries and avoid accounting for the cash part (ie dividends), will this mess up my calculations significantly assuming any cash gets reinvested pretty much straight away?
Im assuming that an inbound delivery wouldnt be ‘seen’ as growth on the investment but as external cash I’ve added in and would reduce the reported performance?
Just wondering if I can halve the amount of transactions I need to manually add.