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, [email protected] wrote: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
