record keeping, page-14

You have to watch the Automatically generated reports from Etrade & Belldirect, As the program chooses which stock parcels it records(for your buy and sells) in the EOY report, gets complicated if you hold some across to the next financial year, if you have first done it manually one year, then decide to use the report the broker issues for the next year there may be discrepencies, sorry i didnt explain that very well.
My method is easy (i believe) simply print out the contract note each time you buy or sell any stock, for ease keep each sell the same amount of shares as a buy, or if selling less, keep it as an open trade in your file until youve sold that entire holding, then it moves into a different 'completed trade' area of the folder.
Whenever i get time i enter each trade into an excel spreadsheet, then the buy/sell note goes into another section of the folder in alphabetical order.