Depends on how you are computing IRR - it's not a beancount feature. Are you talking about Martin's experimental returns calculator <https://beancount.github.io/docs/calculating_portolio_returns.html>? I haven't tried that out myself yet and I don't know if IRR is a feature it has.
Based on the IRR <https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/irr.asp>formula <https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/irr.asp> seems like you'd want to extract basis and cash flows for the investment under analysis, disregarding what account it's being held in. Or maybe you want to bucketize - treating tax-advantaged holdings differently from normal holdings, discounting taxes from the normal asset's IRR. On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 1:10 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks @Ben. > > It's not terribly common but I just encountered 5 of them so I think I > handling them manually for now is fine. > > Follow-up question: If you want to compute the IRR how will this work? In > my specific case I have an investment in a partnership that generated 5 > stock distributions which I then moved to my trading account and then I > later sold. I'm not clear on all accounting steps I need to record in > beancount to make this work. In order to get the cost basis in the new > account I have to transfer some cash over I think and then if I want to > compute the IRR for the partnership I'm not sure yet how I would do that. > > > On Friday, September 3, 2021 at 1:45:29 AM UTC+12 [email protected] wrote: > >> +1 re. Ben's answer. >> How many of these do you really do? >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 2:30 AM Ben Blount <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Yeah this is high on my wishlist too. This came up a bunch for crypto >>> users as well - you should find some examples if you search for crypto on >>> the mailing list. >>> >>> The workaround is you have to transfer the lots manually, e.g make two >>> postings per lot - one to reduce the lot on the old account, then recreate >>> it with the original date and cost in the new account. >>> direction >>> bean-doctor can help you easily get all the lots, you can then copy >>> paste to make this a little less fussy. >>> >>> I'm on mobile or I'd give you examples. >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 22:37 [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I tried searching a bit in the documentation and this forum but not >>>> sure how to handle this case and carry forward cost-basis information. >>>> Imagine you buy some stock at institution 1 and transfer it to institution >>>> 2 and then sell. How should one record all this? I tried the following but >>>> I'm getting an error related to no positions found. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Jonathan >>>> >>>> 2015-02-01 open Assets:Invest:ATrade >>>> >>>> 2015-02-01 open Assets:Invest:ATrade:Cash >>>> >>>> >>>> 2015-04-01 * "Buy some shares of Hooli in April 2015" >>>> >>>> Assets:Invest:ATrade 25 HOOL {10.00 >>>> USD, "first-lot"} >>>> >>>> Assets:Invest:ATrade:Cash -250 USD >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 2017-03-01 open Assets:Invest:ZTrade >>>> >>>> 2017-03-01 open Assets:Invest:ZTrade:Cash >>>> >>>> >>>> 2017-04-01 * "Transfer from ATrade to ZTrade" >>>> >>>> Assets:Invest:ATrade -25 HOOL >>>> >>>> Assets:Invest:ZTrade 25 HOOL >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 2017-05-01 close Assets:Invest:ATrade >>>> >>>> >>>> 2018-05-03 * "Sell some shares of Hooli in May 2018" >>>> >>>> Assets:Invest:ZTrade -25 HOOL {} @ >>>> 22.00 USD >>>> >>>> Assets:Invest:ZTrade:Cash >>>> >>>> No position matches "Posting(account='Assets:Invest:ZTrade', units=-25 >>>> HOOL, cost=CostSpec(number_per=<class 'beancount.core.number.MISSING'>, >>>> number_total=None, currency='USD', date=None, label=None, merge=False), >>>> price=22.00 USD, flag=None, meta={'filename': >>>> '/Users/jonathan/Documents/Finances/beandata/test.beancount', 'lineno': >>>> 22})" against balance (25 HOOL) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Beancount" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/b3efe67c-a858-4c2c-af6b-26e7444dd9e1n%40googlegroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/b3efe67c-a858-4c2c-af6b-26e7444dd9e1n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Beancount" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CACGEkZtewt_iundhaTt8HZ654SJmNWJYyUHhgEPXx0gk2SfRkQ%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CACGEkZtewt_iundhaTt8HZ654SJmNWJYyUHhgEPXx0gk2SfRkQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/f27d07a7-d27b-4f5b-82c5-5a296578bcb3n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/f27d07a7-d27b-4f5b-82c5-5a296578bcb3n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. 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