IRR on Advanced Portfolio report

[Donald Allen]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Franco Mossotto
<franco.mossotto at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was looking for the ability in gnucash to calculate the IRR (Internal Rate
> of Return) for investments. This is something that other products has and
> that I found essential in order to evaluate the investments in my portfolio.

IRR is certainly useful, but can be misinterpreted. See

http://hadm.sph.sc.edu/courses/econ/invest/invest.html

I realize that what I've said here is a bit off-topic, but since
Professor Baker explains the issues very clearly, I thought I'd
mention it.

/Don

> I've found some old request to add this capability on the advanced portfolio
> report, but I didn't find any implementation for that.
>
> I've tried doing that by myself on 2.2.7 that is the version I'm currently
> using.
>
> Attached there are my scm version and the patch file for 2.2.7. It works,
> even if this probably doesn't comply with your coding standards (this is my
> first implementation using Scheme)
>
> I was trying to port it on trunk, but I've some issues with advanced
> portfolio shipped on 2.4.0 that I need to investigate first.
>
> Regards,
> Franco
>
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