Investment expense shows as a gain

Unknown

Investment performance report shows expenses as gains. IE in a mutual fund with a monthly fee the fee is entered as an Investment Expense. When I run an Investment Performance report that fee shows as a gain. If I click on that line a windows pops up which shows the entry as "Investment Exp." If I change it to "_Investment Exp" it dosen't make any difference.

Is it me or Quicken???

Thanks

UKR

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Sherlock

The Investment Performance report should show expenses as Returns - not gains.

Unknown

Thanks. I'll work on the screen captures shortly. But meantime, since I'm not an accountant, how do expenses become returns? And yes, those fees do show in the returns column.

Unknown

Screen capture:

Even though the 2 $25.00 entries are entered as Investment expense they show as an increase. Note: Where the "Action"  shows as Cash it's entered as a Withdrawal.


Jim_Harman

I agree "return" can be a confusing term.



For the IRR calculation that the Investing Performance report performs, a fee that is deducted from the account is treated the same as a withdrawal. It is included in the returns but it reduces the ending market value.

Jim_Harman

One way to think about this is that the Investment Performance report is trying to show the performance of the underlying securities, taking into account the timing of any purchases or sales.

It does not distinguish between "good" withdrawals, i.e. ones that benefit you and "bad" withdrawals, ones that benefit the financial institution.

Likewise, it does not produce a higher Avg annual return if you made a deposit or had a fee refunded during the period.

If you have been lucky or smart enough to buy low and sell high, that will be reflected in a higher Average annual return.

Unknown

Thanks! I see what you're saying. Let me look into it. I appreciate your quick comments.