IBKR activity statements, Flex files, and ACB
Choose the correct IBKR CSV format, review trade sections and commissions, and reconcile Canadian pooled ACB beyond the broker’s tax-lot figures.
Guides for pooled adjusted cost base across multiple brokerages and Bank of Canada FX conversion for USD trades.
Practical guides on multi-account and fx for Canadian taxable investment records. Use the worked examples to review your assumptions, then check a scenario with the free investor tools .
Choose the correct IBKR CSV format, review trade sections and commissions, and reconcile Canadian pooled ACB beyond the broker’s tax-lot figures.
Track an in-kind transfer between taxable brokerages without resetting ACB, duplicating holdings, or losing the history behind a later sale.
Track DLR and DLR.U purchases, journalling, and sales in Canadian dollars so a currency-conversion workflow does not hide a taxable disposition.
Learn how to find and document Bank of Canada exchange rates for foreign-currency investments, including settlement dates, missing observations, and T5008 checks.
Record U.S. stocks held in a U.S.-dollar account for Canadian tax, converting each purchase and sale to CAD at its documented rate.
Canadian tax law requires one pooled ACB for identical securities across all your taxable accounts — not one per brokerage. Here's what that means in practice.