- 1). Collect and organize your year-end mutual fund statements for the years you have owned the fund. The statement will list all of the transactions for the entire year.
- 2). Add together all of your investment amounts in the fund. This would include your initial investment plus any additional investments. The total is the total amount of your money you have invested in the fund.
- 3). Add together the amounts of dividends and capital gains that were paid by the fund and reinvested into more shares of the fund. Reinvested distributions increase the number of shares you own in the fund and your basis in the fund.
- 4). Add together the total amount of your investments and the total of reinvested distributions. This final total is your basis in the fund.
- 5). Divide the basis total by the current number of fund shares in the account. The result is your cost basis per share. This number can be used to calculate the capital gain or loss if a partial sale of the fund account is made.
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