Re: Cost Basis in Investment Performance?

Kevin,
thanks for your answer. I cannot believe your first answer because the 
Investment Performance in my Moneydance version ignores the transaction 
costs (Moneydance 1010r3 751, Windows XP).

E.g.: Investement Performance report says that I bought my Royal Dutch 
Shell shares for 1014,98 EUR but my bank charged me (correctly) with 
1029,58 EUR. The costs are included in the Moneydance transaction. The 
Portfolio report reports the correct amount.

I will have a look in the discussion you mention.

Marc


Am 23.10.2010 17:50, schrieb Mennē Software Solutions:
> Cost basis is the amount you paid for a security including any transaction
> fees. When the Investment Performance report computes the Buys column of the
> report, it includes any fees in the amount. So the Buys column in effect
> already reflects the cost basis. The other columns (Sales and Income) also
> include any transaction fees.
>
> There's a discussion about how the Investment Performance report computes
> Return, which may be of interest to you:
> http://moneydance.com/trac/ticket/2831
>
> So I think that addresses part of your question, the part of whether cost
> basis is part of the Investment Performance report or not. The other part of
> your question, whether you can turn this off and *not* include transaction
> fees to compare what performance you might get without fees, is currently
> not possible. You may contact customer support and submit an enhancement
> request if you think this is important.
>
> Another enhancement request you might want to submit is to have a report
> include the transaction fees as a separate column in the report so you can
> export to a spreadsheet and do your own math on it. I don't believe that's
> possible right now either.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --Kevin
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Marc Kaulisch<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>> I am wondering why the cost basis is not recognised in the investment
>> performance report but in the portfolio report. Are there any explanations?
>>
>> I would like to see the cost basis recognised in the investment performance
>> in order to see how far investment costs cost performance...
>>
>> Maybe there could be an option: turn cost basis on/off for the investment
>> performance report
>>
>> Marc
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