# Accounting for a mutual fund, part 5 -- split shares

**URL:** https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/accounting-for-a-mutual-fund-part-5-split-shares/771
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**Created:** [March 27, 2026, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/accounting-for-a-mutual-fund-part-5-split-shares/771 "2026-03-27T13:39:29Z")
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### Author: ![hledgerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8491ac/32.png) [@hledgerfan](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/u/hledgerfan)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2026, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/accounting-for-a-mutual-fund-part-5-split-shares/771/1 "2026-03-27T13:39:30Z")

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When I started tracking mutual funds in hledger, I hadn’t even considered the possibility that a fund might have a share split. Well, it turns out that accounting for split shares in a mutual fund is almost as easy as deciding to actually split an infinitive in English. Read about it in my un-split part 5 posting at [https://hledgerfan.com/mutual-funds-part-5-share-split/](https://hledgerfan.com/mutual-funds-part-5-share-split/).