Please choose the correct ending to complete the given sentence: Finance and Business: [header] How to define cost basis [title] Learn the definition of cost basis. [step] Cost basis is the original value of an asset, such as stocks, bond, mutual funds. You begin with the original purchase price, and then you adjust it for commissions, stock splits, dividends, return of capital or any other transaction that affects the original value of the asset.

Ending1: [substeps] The business is then larger but compsures more money. In other words, some interest companies pay more or less the maximum when they borrow money. Ending2: [substeps] Look up a product or service that has added cost basis to its price basis. Knowing the value of the asset can help you understand the purpose or fulfillment of the product or service. Ending3: In one example, the price basis was $20 , 000. Divide 1 value by 2 and multiply 2 by 2, using the amount in your gross deductible units. Ending4: Once you know the cost basis, you can compare it to the amount for which you sold the asset in order to calculate capital gains or losses. You need to know capital gains for tax purposes.

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