Advanced Portfolio Report

[Charles Day]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Richard Ullger <rullger at ntlworld.com>
wrote:

> Andrew, Derek,
>
> Thanks for your replies.
>
> What I'm looking for is a valuation that includes dividends and interest
> to give a true ROI, similar to the portfolio view in Quicken 98.
>

Me too... if you're planning to start working on the code, let me know, as I
am definitely interested in helping to expand any portfolio management
functionality. Once I can get substantially free of the QIF importer, that
is.  -Charles

I appretiate the suggestion of using the multi-column report. I've used this
> to simulate the snapshots window in Quicken and have the advanced portfolio,
> net worth and 12mth income/expense reports on it but its painfully slow.
> There are other problems with the MC report but thats another issue.
>
> Anyway, your help is appretiated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard.
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> Subject:        Re: Advanced Portfolio Report
> Author: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew at swclan.homelinux.org>
> Date:           28th February 2008 7:47:22 pm
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:53:07AM +0000, Richard Ullger wrote:
>
> > Derek Atkins wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > Richard Ullger <rullger at ntlworld.com> writes:
> > >
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> Is there a way to include cash, dividends and interest in this
> report?
> > >>
> > >> I have a parent account for the broker/institution with a bank sub
> > >> account for cash and stock sub account for each stock as per the
> > >> concepts guide. Dividends and interest are received into the bank
> > >> account and the bank account is used to fund purchases of the stock.
> > >>
> > >> I've tried to include the bank account in the account selection tab
> of
> > >> the report options but the account is ignored.
> > >
> > > Andrew S-W could answer this difinitively, but I think the answer
> > > is no, this report only shows your commodity handlings, not your
> > > cash holdings, too.  Keep in mind that your cash holdings don't
> > > change in value due to price fluctuations, so there are no changes
> > > in basis or cap gains/losses.  There's only interest income.
>
> here I am ;)
>
> Derek is correct, the Advanced Portfolio report *only* looks at the
> individual commodity accounts and transactions into and out of those
> accounts.
>
> There have been a whole raft of discussions of what to do with
> portfolio reports. Please review the devel archives and search
> bugzilla for enhancement requests against adv. portfolio.
>
> Your comments are appreciated. In a perfect world, my plan is to
> factor out large chunks of the portfolio report into a utility file
> that could then be used by any number of portfolio type reports... but
> that's dependent on more time than I currently have.
>
> >
> > Where would I start to write such a report. Are the reports written in c
> > or scheme. Would you be able to point me in the right direction so that
> > I could look at how the advanced portfolio report was written as a
> starter.
> >
>
> the relevant report is in
> src/report/standard-reports/advanced-portfolio.scm
>
> Based on what you've said, I *think* you are looking for something
> that will track your "brokerage" statement as opposed to your
> individual stocks? It's certainly concievable. In the meantime, you
> might find the multi-column report helps -- you could stick a
> portfolio report alongside an income statemnt for the selected
> accounts or something like that.
>
> A
>
>
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