How to get stocks' total return?

[risterian]

risterian <en9e-60hk at dea.spamcon.org> wrote:

>Manoj Kumar <mkmetw at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Advance portfolio report will list the dividend received under "Income" column if the dividend transaction includes the stock account. Both debit and credit columns for the stock account split should be left empty.
>>
>>You can also check this thread (reply of Jannick Asmus) http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Advanced-Portfolio-and-dividend-in-cash-was-How-to-register-a-dividend-in-cash-td1433051.html.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>
>Thank you very much for the reply.
>
>The solution at the end of bug 581191 does seem to work, I tested
>by changing one cash dividend to be shown that way.
>
>But it was tedious and error-prone to do just one, and I have 
>hundreds.
>
>Has anyone made a tool to address this?
>
>What I don't get is why the GnuCash importer tore apart the 
>dividend transactions from the stock accounts, instead of doing
>it like this solution says.  I checked the Money QIF file for the 
>brokerage - all the transactions are right there together.
>
>There must be some reason it was done that way - what am I 
>missing?


Anyone?  No thoughts, history, clues, tools, tips on my questions?

Is it just that this problem wasn't realized originally, and 
that's why importing doesn't do it this way?  Or is there some 
other reason?


>>> 
>>> I recently imported data from Money to GnuCash.  
>>> 
>>> Money made it very easy to see the total return of a stock - 
>>> offers Annual Return, and ROI All Dates.  
>>> 
>>> GnuCash doesn't seem to have that.
>>> 
>>> The Advanced Portfolio report purports to show Total Return and 
>>> Rate of Return, but is incomplete - it leaves out anything 
>>> received in cash instead of shares - that is, non-reinvested 
>>> dividends and capital gains.  The import process put them in
>>> their own accounts such as 
>>> Investing Income:Dividends:Etrade:Stock-Name 
>>> and there seems to be nothing that ties them up together.
>>> 
>>> Is there some report or screen or something where I can see the 
>>> actual total return?
>>> 
>>> Or, is there some means by which I can move all of the cash 
>>> transactions back to where they belong, with cash info under the 
>>> stock account itself, so the report shows correctly?  Hopefully
>>> without manually doing it one by one.
>>> 
>>> Or, is there some alternate method of finding out total return?
>>> 
>>> I looked for "return" on the FAQ web page and didn't see anything 
>>> pertinent.
>>> 
>>> Ref: Windows XP SP2, GnuCash 2.4.11
>
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