Talk:Specific identification of shares

Should we have separate pages for all of the different accounting methods for identifying shares? Or, should we merge them into one tax-related page showing the different methods? As in:

Cost Basis Methods

 * Specific share identification
 * FIFO
 * Average - Single category
 * Average - Double category

CyberBob 18:22, 26 May 2008 (EDT)

If we do that, there should be a separate page for tax accounting methods (or we could link to Fairmark's page). Specific identification of shares needs enough extra details, and has enough links to it (because many other tax techniques depend on it), that it should have its own page. Grabiner 18:49, 26 May 2008 (EDT)

I would propose one page for various cost basis methods with link to Specific Identification of Shares. I agree with Grabiner. Specific Identification of Shares needs a lot of details, which might clutter a page that summarizes various cost basis methods.

I created the Cost basis methods page. Grabiner 00:24, 27 May 2008 (EDT)

The cost-basis methods page looks great! Great job Grabiner (and fast too). I put a 'See also' link to it on this page. And since the cost-basis methods page is what I was suggesting, I removed the 'MergeSuggested' template message. (I'm assuming nobody thinks it's still warranted). CyberBob 10:43, 27 May 2008 (EDT)