profit/loss with mutual funds

Jason Rennie jrennie@ai.mit.edu
Sat, 17 Feb 2001 10:10:54 -0500


aud.renne@exmail.de said:
> What way is a profit or loss calculated; should be (total_amount *
> current_price) - sum_t(value(t)), that is (current value of account -
> money spent to buy the current amount). And since this contains
> re-investments the total profit/loss is wrong. 

Ah, yes.  The current version of GNUCash doesn't seem to have any way to 
calculate profit correctly.

Would it be difficult to add a feature to GNUCash that would allow a 
mutual fund transaction to be marked as a reinvested dividend?

Jason