[Kmymoney-devel] Wishlist: Capital gain/loss using FIFO basis

[Alvaro Soliverez]

Can you provide the calculations?

I can try to add it into the existing performance report

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Toan <nguyenthetoan at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my opinion, a report would suffice.
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Alvaro Soliverez <asoliverez at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hello Toan,
>> how do you envision this? A report or something else?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alvaro
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Toan <nguyenthetoan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I submitted a feature request for this but I guess I could post here
>>> if this can lead somewhere :))
>>> I know KMM doesn't support stock capital gain/lost calculation due to
>>> the complexity of specifying
>>> which lots to sell. My brokerage website always uses first-in
>>> first-out basis to calculate capital
>>> gain/loss, and I think it's acceptable. (Of course, you'd have to be
>>> careful when you file taxes,
>>> but for regular purposes, FIFO is sufficient to give you a good overview).
>>>
>>> So if any developer could add this feature, it'd be great. Better than
>>> nothing. It can serve as a building
>>> step for more sofisticated calculation later :)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Toan
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