Advanced Portfolio Report

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 08:45:36AM +0000, Richard Ullger 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.

Sounds like you're trying to get an overall view of money in one
complete brokerage account? Say, all the money in your Fidelity
account? AM I understanding that properly? 

I could see a report that looks at the returns for an entire sub-tree
of the accounts and would allow you to include all the various bits of
money that go into one of those accounts... someday...

> 
> 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.

indeed. 

A

> 
> 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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