[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> It's been rumoured that Jason Rennie said:
> >
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > > What way is a profit or loss calculated; should be (total_amount *
> > > current_price) - sum_t(value(t)), that is (current value of account -
> > > money spent to buy the current amount). And since this contains
> > > re-investments the total profit/loss is wrong.
> >
> > Ah, yes. The current version of GNUCash doesn't seem to have any way to
> > calculate profit correctly.
>
> The engine has C code for a 'fifo' that would handle this correctly,
> However, none of the reports currently use this, and I'm not sure what
> that would take. (old gnucash-1.2 used to do this, but it fell into
> disrepair).
>
> The fifo does the right thing for reinvestments & etc, adding &
> subtracting the purchase prices and quantities when they were made,
> and correctly tracking the remainder.
>
> I'm not sure, there may be a plan to re-implement the fifo in scheme.
There is a plan to reimplement this.
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