On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Franco Mossotto <franco.mosso...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was looking for the ability in gnucash to calculate the IRR (Internal Rate > of Return) for investments. This is something that other products has and > that I found essential in order to evaluate the investments in my portfolio.
IRR is certainly useful, but can be misinterpreted. See http://hadm.sph.sc.edu/courses/econ/invest/invest.html I realize that what I've said here is a bit off-topic, but since Professor Baker explains the issues very clearly, I thought I'd mention it. /Don > I've found some old request to add this capability on the advanced portfolio > report, but I didn't find any implementation for that. > > I've tried doing that by myself on 2.2.7 that is the version I'm currently > using. > > Attached there are my scm version and the patch file for 2.2.7. It works, > even if this probably doesn't comply with your coding standards (this is my > first implementation using Scheme) > > I was trying to port it on trunk, but I've some issues with advanced > portfolio shipped on 2.4.0 that I need to investigate first. > > Regards, > Franco > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel