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If you have entered any price quotes in the Current Quote screen, they
will be saved to disk automatically AFTER you invoke the EXIT function
by pressing the X or the Esc key.  However, the program will prompt you
to specify whether you have just entered the beginning or the ending
price quotes, so that it will know how to store this information.

You can press the Esc key to cancel this prompt (without saving any
quotes).  You can also type X again to EXIT directly to the Master Menu
WITHOUT saving the quotes (after re-confirming this is what you want).

B = BEGINNING (historical) prices.  This tells the program you want to
    to change the beginning report date and the beginning price quotes.

E = ENDING (current) prices.  This tells the program you want to change
    the ending (or only) report date and the corresponding prices.

U = UPDATE.  This tells the program to update BOTH the beginning and
    ending price quotes.  The old ending report date will become the
    new beginning date and the information you have entered will become
    the new ending report date and corresponding prices.

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H = HELP.  This function displays the User Manual chapter you are read-
    ing now.

The B, E and U functions will not be available all at the same time.
Only one or two of them will be available, depending on the relationship
between the date you entered and any previous beginning or ending dates.
The reason for this is to insure that a proper relationship always
exists between the beginning and ending report dates.  For example the
program will not let you change the ending report date to a date that
would be earlier than the beginning report date.

The existing report dates, and the "as of" date you typed in, can be
seen near the top of your display for reference.  (More detailed infor-
mation on the date relationships follows the next paragraph.)

After you type B, E or U the program will save your price quotes and
the corresponding "as of" dates in their proper places on disk, and then
return to the Master Menu.  Both the beginning and ending quotes and the
beginning and ending report dates are kept in the catalog (the file
named CATALOG.POR on disk).

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The date you specify after entering price quotes can be either a begin-
ning or an ending report date.  Report dates are used to select the data
to be included in reports.  The Market Value reports (function M from
the Master Menu) show portfolio value and other information as of the
ending report date.  The Gain/Loss reports (function G from the Master
Menu) show portfolio performance during the time period between the be-
ginning and ending report dates, inclusively.  These report dates come
from the Current Quote screen.  They cannot be changed anywhere else;
this is intended to insure correspondence between dates and price
quotes.

IMPORTANT: The beginning report date will actually be ONE DAY LATER than
the valuation date for security prices.  This is because the program
assumes you have entered the CLOSING (or end-of-day) prices as of the
specified valuation date.  The whole process is best explained by the
following examples:





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Assume you wish to examine portfolio performance for the month of May
1993.  Thus the report period will be May 1, 1993 through May 31, 1993.
First, you would enter the closing prices for April 30, 1993.  After you
press Esc to EXIT the Current Quote screen, press B to make those price
quotes the BEGINNING quotes.  Next, enter the closing prices for May 31,
1993.  After you again press Esc to EXIT the Current Quote screen, press
E to make those price quotes the ENDING quotes.  At this time, the GAIN/
LOSS reports should correctly show portfolio performance for the month
of May 1993.

Now assume you wish to see portfolio performance for June 1, 1993.  In
this case the beginning and ending report dates are to be the same.
Since the beginning report date is June 1, you will need the closing
price quotes for May 31, which are already known to the program.  Thus,
you only need to enter the closing quotes for June 1.  When you EXIT the
Current Quote screen, press U to update BOTH the beginning and ending
prices.  The old ending prices (for May 31) will become the new begin-
ning prices, and new ending prices (for June 1) will be retained by the
program.  At this time the GAIN/LOSS reports should correctly show
portfolio performance for June 1, 1993 (a 1-day report period).

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         OTHER IMPORTANT NOTES REGARDING CURRENT PRICE UPDATES:

1. The reports invoked by the M and G functions from the Master Menu get
   their report dates only from the Current Quote screen.  These dates
   cannot be changed elsewhere.

2. Wherever a price quote is not specified or is missing from either the
   import or manual data entry process, any already existing price quote
   that would otherwise be changed is left intact.  It is up to the user
   to make sure price quotes and report dates actually correspond.  The
   program does not clear out any of the old price quotes.

3. Wherever a price quote is missing, the report program will substitute
   original purchase cost for market value, and will indicate the market
   price is missing.  You can manually enter a zero price quote to sig-
   nify a missing market price.

4. The program will not allow an incorrect relationship between the be-
   ginning and ending report dates.
