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