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• Select Yes, subtract from my cash balance in this account if you're buying the shares with money from the current investment account; this decreases the cash balance of this account. Quicken enters this transaction in the transaction list as a Buy.
• Select Yes, subtract from another Quicken account if you're buying the shares with money from another account; this decreases the cash balance of that account. Quicken enters this transaction in the transaction list as a BuyX.
• Select No, deposit the shares without affecting any cash balance if you're simply depositing the shares in the current investment account; this does not affect the cash balance of any account. Quicken enters this transaction in the transaction list as a ShrsIn (shares in).

In the top half of this page, enter the number of shares you purchased, your actual (discounted) purchase price, the purchase date, and any commissions or other fees.

In the bottom half of this page, enter the:

• Offering date: Enter the first day of the purchase period (your employer may call this the Grant date).
• Ending date: Enter the last day of the purchase period (your employer may call this the Purchase date).
• Price on Offering date: Enter the fair market value of the security on the first day of the purchase period.
• Price on Ending date: Enter the fair market value of the security on the last day of the purchase period.
• Discount rate: Enter the percent by which your purchase is discounted.
• If this is your spouse's ESPP plan, click to select the Spouse's ESPP check box. This helps Quicken assign the correct tax dialog line item to the proceeds when you sell.