security reporting wrong number in report

[alan green]

I have a bond security that is showing a profit or loss on a daily performance report, with no fluctuation in price, no dividends and no input from me. It's a bond with no symbol so it can't be updated with the price retrieve.

So it's delivering an erronous price for no reason I can understand. Your thoughts?

[Mark]

Hi alan green,

Are you looking at the "Gain" field in the "Portfolio Performance" report? If so, look at the other fields next to it, like Ending Value, Beginning Value, and your contributions/withdrawals to see how you are making a gain. The gain is a combination of all these items:

Gain = End Value + Withdrawals + With-Distrib. - Contributions - Beg Value

If you have a question on the Gain, make sure all the other numbers make sense. For example, if the End Value is incorrect, look at your recorded transactions/prices, to make sure you own the right number of shares, and the closing price on the ending report date is correct. You can look at this in the Data Register.

The other possibility is that you have accrued interest that is being accounted for. Is the title of the report showing "End Value + Acc Int"? If so, it is adding in interest that you've accrued, based on the recorded "Income" properties you've set for your bond. You can control whether or not this report includes accrued interest under "Options / Report Preferences... / Portfolio Performance / Include Accrued Interest".

[alan green]

Thanks Mark. The accrued interest was the problem.