Re: profit/loss with mutual funds

2001-02-22 Thread linas
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

Re: profit/loss with mutual funds

2001-02-22 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Jason Rennie said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 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

Re: profit/loss with mutual funds

2001-02-22 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
[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).

Re: profit/loss with mutual funds

2001-02-22 Thread Herbert Thoma
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once upon a time, there was a field called 'action' associated with each transaction, and it was meant to hold some menu selectable annotation: e.g. 'cap gain', 'dividend', 'purchase'. The intent of this field was to enable exactly what you are talking about:

Re: Image enabling gnucash?

2001-02-22 Thread Dave Peticolas
Bakki Kudva writes: Hello everyone, I am new on this list and gnucash. I do have it on my Red Hat 6.2 box and am very impressed with what I see. I am a consultant/integrator in the business document management solutions. One of the major application of 'imaging' is to image enable

Re: Image enabling gnucash?

2001-02-22 Thread Dave Peticolas
Bakki Kudva writes: Ofcourse it makes sense for it to be tuned off as default. Could be enabled via a new panel in Settings - preferences..? But even personal users could benefit a great deal with image enabling. At tax time, when something under warranty breaks, when a maintenance

currency clarification

2001-02-22 Thread Christian Stimming
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- In a recent chat with goonie, it appeared to me that our consensus on the currency/commodity in the account/transaction/split structures is still unclear to most developers. Therefore I cleaned up all the respective comments in the header files, see attached