Unfortunately the current implementation breaks Managers investment calculations again as it fails to differentiate between realised and unrealised gains/losses
Investments in things such as listed shares change constantly. The changes are important for 2 separate reasons.
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Unrealised gains/losses: this occurs when a Business needs to know it’s current net value. An example of which is distribution of realised and unrealised profit / loss to shareholders. Doing so then allows accurate valuation of subsequent contributions or withdrawals by a share holder. Note no actual sale of investments occurs during this process and so there is typically no tax actually paid to the taxation authority .
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Realised gains/loss: this occurs when some investments are actually sold. The capital gains/loss depends only on what price the investment units were actually physically purchased and sold for. The tax authority will typically require income / capital gains tax is paid on the investment gain/loss. This calculation is completely independent of any prior unrealised gain/loss calculations.
Please see Investments unexpected behaviour - #3 by Patch for a worked example, which is followed by it’s equivalent manual calculation method
Testing Manager v24.06.08.1634, it no longer calculates Realised gains/losses as required for income tax payments
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In an ideal implementation, the Realised gain/loss calculation would normally be automatically calculated but would support optional manual entry of the “Average purchase price” should a Business want to manually select which specific investment units are being sold (which may have tax payable implications where there is a difference in tax rate depending on length of time a business has held particular units and/or units were purchased for significantly different prices).