Transactions - Buy

There are three ways in ShareScope to record the purchase of a share.

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From the portfolio screen

Select the share in question (so that it is highlighted in blue), right click and select Buy from the menu.

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From the transaction screen (with no existing transactions for the share)

Type the name or EPIC/TIDM of the share and the Add a transaction window will open.

If you are unable to find the share you are looking for, make sure you are searching in the correct list from the drop-down.

Once you have located the share, click on OK.

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From the transaction screen with transactions for the share.

Select one of the transactions for the share. Right click and then select Buy from the menu.

This will display the following dialog:

The window is split into two halves. On the left-hand side, you can see the Share name, Share type, Transaction type, Cash Account name and Currency type. You are also offered the option to add a Reference and/or a Note.

On the right-hand side you can input the:

• Number of Shares
• Prince per share
• Broker Charge
• Stamp
• Contract Levy
• Total Cost
• Date

The price per share with be populated with last night's close and the date and time will be today's date and the time you opened the dialog.

The Price per share can be entered in Pence or Pounds, the default being pence. All the other values are entered in Pounds.

Here we have entered details of a purchase of 1000 shares in Arm Holdings PLC (ARM) we paid 437.9p/share, a Broker Charge of £12.95 and £21.90 stamp duty. The transaction is recorded as having occurred on 04/01/2011.

Once you click OK, the screen will change to the Transactions view (if not already selected).

You can see the purchase of Arm holdings has been recorded and is shown on line 1.

Line 2 shows the Latest position of the holding, line 3 shows the cash account value and line 4 shows the total holding.

Note: You only see Latest lines when the Transaction table is sorted by the Name column.

You can see that the Cash Account is showing a negative balance because the starting balance of the cash account was £0.00. You may also have noticed that the Value on the Totals line doesn't take into account the Cash Account value.

There is an option in ShareScope, which if selected, will include cash account balances in the portfolio valuation.

To turn this on:

1. Select the Tools menu and then Options from the bottom of the menu.
2. From the Options window select the Portfolios & Transactions tab.
3. At the top of the dialog screen you will see the option Include attached Cash balance(s) in Portfolio valuation. Tick this option if it is not already selected.

In addition to this, there is an option to Assume transaction stamp duty @ 0.5 %. If you tick this, ShareScope will automatically calculate the stamp duty of your purchase transactions for you.

With the option ticked you can now see the cash account value is being factored into the value on the Totals line.

In order to address this, a credit needs to be added to the cash account to indicate that the funds are available for this and other purchases you wish to record.

Right click on one of the transactions, select View cash account from the menu and then select Attached Account:

Your cash account will have a single debit entry like this.

Right click on the debit line or the white space below it and select Add Credit from the menu

Here we have entered £50000 as our starting cash total and set the date as 01/01/11 which is before our purchase of Arm holding which occurred on 04/01/11.

If you wish, you can add a Reference and/or Description for the credit.

Now you can see the credit has been applied and the Cash Account balance is now £45586.15.

To return to the Transaction screen right click and select Show linked portfolio's transactions from the menu.

Now you can see that the Cash total is being factored into the total valuation of the portfolio.

£11,020.00 + £45,586.15 = £56,606.15

On the Summary bar at the top of the Transaction screen you can see the value of the portfolio is shown with cash, and without cash; with the two figures separated by a forward slash.

Here we have added purchases for BP, ITV, National Grid, Rio and Royal Dutch Shell. You can see that the cash balance is now down to just £631.67 and the portfolio is making an overall profit of £14,326.66

Transactions - Dividends

Like Buys and Sells, Dividends can be recorded from either the Transaction view or the Portfolio view.

To record a dividend, highlight the share (or transaction) and then right-click and select Dividend from the menu.

Here we are adding an historical dividend for Arm Holdings.

The number of shares will already be populated so we have just entered the Net per share value of 3.15p and the date 05/10/15.

Here you can see the dividend has been recorded on the transaction screen. You may also note that the Cash Account value has increased by £31.50.

You can see this more clearly reflected in the cash account view.

Whilst ShareScope is configured to add dividends to your portfolios on an on-going basis, it will not automatically add historical dividends to your portfolio. However, you can prompt ShareScope to do this.

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Show Latest Dividends

On either the Transaction view or the Portfolio view right click and select Show Latest Dividends from the menu.

You can see at the top of the Latest dividends dialog that date since you last reviewed your dividends is usually set to today's date, in this case 9/12/15.

At the bottom of the dialog window you can see there is a Select date button. You can use this to set a date prior to your first purchase and then ShareScope will check for any dividends that have not been added to ALL of your portfolios since that date.

It is important to note this function does check ALL of your portfolios at the same time not just the selected portfolio.

Here we have set the date to 01/01/11, which is just before the date of our initial purchases.

Once an historical date has been set you can see that ShareScope is now showing all of the dividends that have been paid out since that date for all of the instruments in our portfolio.

The dividend we recorded manually for Arm holdings has been omitted from this list as the program has recognised that it has already been added to the portfolio.

You can see that all of the dividends have been added to the portfolio and are now shown in the transaction screen.

You can also see that all of the dividends have been applied to the Cash account. You may recall that after the purchase of all of our shares we had £631 in the cash account. You can see that prior to the sale of National Grid the Cash Balance was £11,681 so just over £11,000 in dividends has been added to the account in since the beginning of 2011.

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Transactions - Show Latest Only / Show Current Holdings

Once you have finished inputting all of your information, the transaction screen will show you the history of your transactions in full. However you may only be interested in seeing the latest positions of your holdings.

To display this, right-click on one of the transactions and select Show Latest Only from the menu.

This will hide all of your individual transactions and only show you the latest line for each holding.

You may also only wish to display only those shares for which you have a current holding. You can see the option Show current holdings only on the menu above. This can be applied in both the Transaction and Portfolio views.

Here you can see that we have turned on the Show Current holdings only option in our Portfolio view. National Grid, which we have sold, is no longer shown in the list.

You can also see that we have added GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) to the portfolio. As there are no holdings recorded for GSK it should not be shown in the list. However, in order to allow you to record transactions against it the share will be shown until the program is restarted or the data is reloaded. Shares added in this way will be coloured purple as a reminder of this.

Transactions - Other Transactions

Other than Share Split and Share Consolidation there are a series of other options under the Other Transactions menu:

• Take up rights
• Sell nil paid rights
• Scrip dividend
• Initial Part Payment
• Part Payment
• Other acquisition
• Other disposal
• Other return
• Other cost

Take up rights, Sell nil paid rights, Other Acquisition and Other disposal are similar to Buy and Sell transactions. They are used to differentiate those particular transactions by name to make it easier to see what is happening on the transaction screen.

Scrip dividend is used when you are paid a dividend in shares rather than cash.

Initial Part Payment and Part Payment are more for historical purchases where it was possible to pay for certain shares in instalments.

Other return is used in lieu of dividend for a cash payment you have received. These will often occur when the company undergoes a corporate action.

Other cost is used to record an additional cost you have incurred for example accrued interest when acquiring bonds or gilts.

Capital Gains and the Dividend Report

Just above the Value at a date option on Transaction screen menu are the options for Dividend report and Capital gains.

For more details about Capital Gains we recommend you view the following tutorials:

• CGT in ShareScope
• Capital Gains Tax (CGT)

The Divided report provides you with a break down your dividends over a specified period.

You can see at the bottom left of the dialog that the report can be set to display a Tax year, Calendar year or you can set a year end date.

The report can be printed or saved. It is saved as a .csv file which can then be opened in any spreadsheet software like Microsoft's Excel or Open Office's Scalc.