[GNC] Advanced Portfolio Report

[rsbrux]

Thanks for the tip about the Investment Lots report. I am not subject
to capital gains tax, and have therefore not bothered to record
securities transactions in lots. I do record when and at what price
shares are purchased and/or sold, so the needed data should be
available, but it looks like too much work to go back and reconfigure
all securities transactions to use GC's lots features.
I see that there is also an "Experimental" "IFRS weighted average cost
basis report", but I can't get it to diplay any values for most of the
columns (e.g. "purchase-val" or "purchase-cost", so perhaps it also
depends on setting up securities transactions in lots.

On Wed, 2026-07-01 at 16:30 -0400, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org
wrote:
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> 
> On 2026-07-01 17:22, rsbrux via gnucash-user wrote:
> > Does "Total Return" therefore include "Income"? In my report it
> > looks like "Total Return" = "Total Gain" + "Income".
> Yes
> > Also it looks as though "Basis" = "Money In" - "Money Out". Is that
> > correct?
> That sum will stop working as you buy and sell stuff, the Basis will 
> change depending on the costing method you choose in the settings.
> > If so, aren't the "Rate of Gain" and "Rate of Return" sometimes
> > understated, since "Money In" isn't committed for the entire time
> > for which gain and return are received?
> 
> Money in measures money invested not sitting around as cash.
> 
> The Advanced Portfolio report doesn't include more sophisticated 
> measures of return like IRR which is why I and some other people use 
> another programme (e.g. Portfolio Performance), spreadsheets etc as
> an 
> adjunct for managing investments.? In breaking news: CAGR has just
> been 
> added to the Investment Lots report if you're interested in that.
> 
> Wm
> 
> 
> > > Rate of Gain = Total Gain / Money in as a %
> > > 
> > > Rate of return = Total Return / Money in as a %
> > > 
> > > Wm
> 
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