Advanced Portfolio Report

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 05:24:23PM +0000, Richard Ullger wrote:
> 
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > 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? 
> 
> Yes but also an overall performance of the account. Whilst your shares 
> might be appreciating in value, the account may also benefit from 
> interest on any cash balance plus payment of dividends from the share 
> holdings. The cash should be included when calculating the total return 
> for the brokerage account.
> 
> > 
> > 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...
> 
> That would be cool. Perhaps something like...
> 
> 			Basis	Value	...	Total Return
> Brokerage account	999	999		99%
> 	stock A		999	999		99%
> 	stock B		999	999		99%
> 	cash		999	999
> 
> The cash basis and value would be the same figure. The basis and value 
> for the brokerage account would include that for the stocks/funds and 
> the cash as would the total return.
> 
> It would also be nice to see an annual return on the report, say for the 
> last 12 months but you'd need appropriate price data.

That seems like a nice little report. someday... Whatever you could do
to flesh out a spec for it and maybe file and enhancement bug for it
would be super.

A
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