Portfolios and Portfolio

The two evaluations Portfolios and Portfolio are very similar. They are therefore documented together. A cut-off date for the day of the evaluation can be set for both evaluations.

Portfolios

The Portfolios evaluation provides an overview of the total sum of all portfolios. The two groupings Currency grouped and Portfolio grouped are supported. If there is no account for a currency, the corresponding currency is not assigned to an account.

Portfolio

The evaluation is carried out according to the accounts or the currency.

Portfolios function

There is only the selection of grouping.

Portfolio function

It is only possible to enter an account transaction here. The following functionality is also available:

• The account is processed here.
• The transactions of the corresponding account are displayed in the expanding table row. These can be edited, see Transaction.

How the evaluation is calculated

Both evaluations include every transaction ever recorded. The calculation starts with the very first transaction and runs chronologically up to the chosen cut-off date. No intermediate results are stored or carried forward; the evaluation is recalculated in full every time it is opened.

Each transaction in a foreign currency is converted using the exchange rate of its own transaction day, not the rate of the cut-off date. Securities still held on the cut-off date are valued at that day’s closing price. Stock splits are taken into account so that the quantities remain comparable across the entire period.

Three points follow from this that matter in daily use. The cut-off date can be chosen freely, because the result always refers to the complete history up to that day. If a transaction far in the past is corrected afterwards, all values affected by it change immediately. And as the number of transactions grows, the evaluation takes correspondingly longer.

Table columns

Only the non-self-explanatory columns are described:

• Currency gain main currency: The currency gain is calculated as if the transaction had taken place in the main currency and not in the foreign currency.
  • With an account transfer in a foreign currency, currency gains or losses are accrued from the transaction time.
• Gain on securities in main currency: The gain on securities is calculated by adding the price gain and dividends. Taxes and trading costs are deducted accordingly.
• Gain on securities: The hypothetical gain that is and was realized on the securities, i.e. if all securities were sold on the reference date. This amount includes the income from interest and dividends as well as the expenses of the recognized transaction and tax costs.