Andrew Sackville-West schrieb: >> I think there might be scope for several models of calculating returns ;) > > sure. As I said before, maybe not in quite this way, getting a library > of functions built for analyzing stock/fund data would make it > relatively easy to generate a whole series of reports that slice and > dice the information any way you want.
Well, if we want to add yet another external dependency (OK, I admit it is not so bad any more as it was in the early gnome days ;-)), QuantLib (http://quantlib.org/) may be worth a try. > *I* think it might be good to > break down some simpler reports that focus on just one or two aspects: > change in value, history of dividends, IRR, maybe a detailed txn > report shoing the affect on basis, gains, value etc by txn. I like this approach. > What we need is a standard way of examining transactions, making sure > it aligns with the documents so that users know exactly how to enter > various txns, so that predictable results can be achieved. That is my > long term goal with the commodities reporting. I agree. Herbert. > A > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- Herbert Thoma Head of Video Group Multimedia Realtime Systems Department Fraunhofer IIS Am Wolfsmantel 33, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Phone: +49-9131-776-323 Fax: +49-9131-776-399 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.iis.fhg.de/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel