Fred Dickinson asks, How does a club go about converting to the unit based system of club accounting? Converting to the unit value system is an easy process with bivio. First, you should make this conversion immediately after closing your club books at year end. ...
Christine wrote I am the financial officer for the investment club I am in and I have no idea how to go about getting the taxes done. What form do I fill out? With few very limited exceptions, for Federal Tax purposes, an investment club ...
The is the second and last [well, we can all hope] article on the current status of fees and expenses for investment clubs. You can read the first in the series at Sorry, Gotta Talk About Fees Again http://www.bivio.com/trez_talk/mail-msg?t=10125700003 In this article, we are going ...
How should we handle club expenses? What about deductible vs. non deductible expenses? Rip and I receive questions like these over and over again. It's not surprising. In the past in some situations it has been difficult, if not impossible, to account for club expenses ...
This will be the last column of trez_talk, at least by Jerry and Rip. For reasons of our own, we are leaving bivio. It has been a very gratifying experience to watch the product start from scratch and become the premier investment club software on ...
Jerry and I consistently recommend that clubs use appreciated stock in paying off departing members, even if the club has cash available. The reason for this is that using cash for partners' withdrawals can lead to prepayment of taxes if the club owns appreciated stocks. ...
Recently we were asked Several members of my investment club and I will be traveling to Hawaii later this fall for 5 days. For three of these days, we will be attending a shareholders' meetings for one of our holdings, taking a tour of the ...
On August 6, 2001, Cabletron Systems [CS] ceased to exist, having split up into separate companies - Riverstone Networks Inc., Enterasys Networks Inc. and Aprisma Management Technologies Inc. The reorganization has been accomplished by spinning off shares of Riverstone Networks, Inc. and then merging Cabletron ...
Jamie wrote My club has added several new members lately, and after inputting their contributions, I noticed that their payments were suddenly worth more than they had paid--for example, a $520 deposit was worth $550. However, the old members' valuations, for the most part, are ...
There has been many questions of late in association with transactions related to ATT (T) stock. In some cases shareholders have mistaken which of the following two transactions they've participated in. The first transaction was strictly a voluntary transaction. In other words, those who did ...
Greg asked Worldcom has issued a tracking stock, MCIT to WCOM shareholders. We have received one share of MCIT for every 25 shares of WCOM. I do not think this was a spinoff. We did not pay any additional money for them. How do we ...
A reader asks I see under Account Transactions you cannot transfer from Petty Cash to another account. How do I get all that money out into the regular money fund so it can be used for expenses? Under the NAIC club accounting software [NCA], the ...
Caryn Axelrad asked recently Our partnership made a charitable contribution, which I believe can be passed through to the members. However, I don't see that as a choice under the Expenses. Caryn is correct. At this point, none of the accounting programs for investment clubs, ...
We recently received the following I have had several of the investors ask how they can determine the values within each stock if possible. The current value of each stock within your club portfolio is updated automatically each evening after the market close. To view ...
The Readers always write <g>. I had said that we would next deal with how to report to the IRS when the amounts you have taken out of the partnership exceed your basis in the club, but there are a number of people who just ...