[moneydance] ProfitCalc extension build 3 and more

[Srini]

Hi Marc

Appreciate your taking time to penning thsi down ...

1)  DivReinvest calculation.  ProfitCalc does exactly what you mention in
your email but does not display the Dividend reinvested separately (this
display item was used for cash Dividend earned).  However if everyone feels
the need to not only club this but also display it, can do so ;-)

Just to illustrate:  Lets say I invest in 100 shares at 10USD on 5/5/2005
and on 5/5/2006 the price is 20 USD.  ProfitCalc will now display return as
100% and avge cost as 10.  If I now introduce a DivReinvest transaction for
lets say 5/11/2005 of 10 shares at 15USD.  The calculation changes so that
Avge cost is now 10.4545 and return is 91.563 %  This clearly indicates that
the base used is now 1150 and not the original 1000. Hope this explains.  If
DivReinvested also should be displayed separately can do so ;-)

2)  I dont understand clearly.  The code alteast is written to take care of
the fees also using standard MD functions (fees is indicated in the same
transaction as buy/sell).  I am not sure if this is how you have recorded
it.   If you provide me some more info, I can  try to debug this further

Cheers
Srini

On 5/5/06, Marc Kaulisch <marc at kaulisch.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Srini,
>
> before I leave for three weeks on holidays a short comment on two issues:
>
> Regarding the DivReinvest please don't see my comment as a bug of your
> extension see it more as a feature request because for me it would be
> really helpful to have a tool that distinguishes between my original
> investments and the divident re-investments (that descend from the
> original investments). Such a distinction would allow me to calculate
> the win or loss I accumulated from the original investment - including
> the compound interest effect.
> To have an example I have here an investment of 2000 EUR where I
> reinvested 31 EUR dividends. Now everything is calculated from the cost
> base 2031 EUR and not from the original 2000 EUR that I invested.
> I would like to see such a divreinvest calculation as an additional
> feature and thought that the dividends row in your extension would be a
> good place for it.
>
> Another issue I have is about the average sell price. I seems for me
> that it does not include all sales (that phenomen appears in two of
> three funds where shares have been sold). The common ground of both
> their sales have been "year-end" sales to cover the investment bank fees
> are not calculated.
>
> Greetings,
>
>
> Marc
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