Understanding "Advanced Portfolio" report

[Paul Stansell]

Hello,

I have a question about the "Advanced Portfolio" report in gnucash 2.2.3. 
It seems that this chart is not well documented in the Help Manual and I 
don't understand the meaning of many of the column headings.

I would very much appreciate it if anyone could explain to me the meanings 
of the following column headings:

1. Basis

2. Money In

3. Money Out

4. Realised Gain

5. Unrealised Gain

6. Total Gain

7. Total Return

Some of these sound very obvious, but I'm unsure of the difference 
between, say, Money Out and Realise Gain.

Also, how does gnucash distinguish between Money Out and Brokerage Fees?

My confusion is undoubtedly exacerbated by the fact that the Advanced 
Portfolio report seems broken in my current version 2.2.3.  For example, I 
bought four stocks with a single payment and so I used a split transaction 
to divide the single payment between the stocks, but in the report the 
Money In value of each of the stocks is that of the total of the four 
stocks.  Another example is a stock that I have held since I bought it and 
for which the report tells me that I have made a Total Gain of minus three 
times the value of the stock!  They all made sense to me in gnucash 1.8.12 
which I used previously.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Paul Stansell