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Posted by Mark on January 31, 2005 at 10:12:58:

In Reply to: out of pocket vs. historical cost posted by Mark on January 29, 2005 at 19:45:11:

: Hi Mark,
: When I generate a custom report showing Out of Pocket costs for a subportfolio, the report provides an accurate figure of that invested amount (checked against statements)In this case, about 19K. Now, in this portfolio, there are no reinvestements. When I generate a Price-Cost graph for the same portfolio, using historical (not current) cost, the 'C' value is greater than the OOP amount by about 2K. I would have thought the 'Cost' value should be equal to the OOP in this instance?

: Thanks, Mark


Hi Mark,

In the report are you looking at historical or current out of pocket costs?
It sounds like your report is set to look at current, but your graph is set
to look at historical. When you look at historical out of pocket cost this
will factor in all transactions in that investment, so if you bought, and then
sold, and then bought again, the gain from the first sell would be included
in the historical case, but not in the current case.

Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley
Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP/2003



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