Advanced Portfolio Report

[Richard Ullger]

Hi Charles,

My intention is to look into improving some of the reporting. I don't 
know scheme so I'm making a start on getting to grips with it. I've 
installed a scheme editor and am starting to go through the Scheme 
Programming Language book so it may take me a while to get up to speed.

Regards,

Richard.

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