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Who uses the specific-identification of shares method of accounting?

There are currently four ways recognized by the Internal Revenue Service

(IRS) for calculating your personal cost basis:

1. Average Cost Single Category

2. Average Cost Double Category

3. First In First Out (FIFO)

4. Specific Identification

I want to use the last one, Specific Identification of shares and I'd like to use it to dollar-cost average with a mutual fund.

What company can I do this with and have *them* keep the records? (For example, Vanguard doesn't do it.)

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I know that they online brokers do this, like E-schwab and ameritrade.

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