Thoughts on how to support accumulating funds?

[JackUkleja]

Hi @alexpung.

Impressive project!

Just wondering if you have thoughts on how best to extend it to support accumulating funds?

Support would be needed for 'adjustments' as well as just trades. Specifically:

• Capital calls - allow the acquisition costs to be increased by the dividend amount
• Return of capital - allow acquisition costs to be reduced by equalisation payments

Also I can see these projects are complicated the fact every broker uses different file formats. I am happy to contribute one for ii.co.uk, although I am exploring whether to use sharesight.com as they do a lot of the work already to import from many different brokers. Supporting that could open up your tool to many more users.

Cheers

[alexpung]

To add accumulated funds you would need the following:

1. Write a FundTrade class and a FundAdjustment class that carry the information needed for calculation. FundAdjustment class probably need to implement IChangeSection104.
2. Write a Parser component to collect the data from the statements and put the data in TaxEventLists
3. Write a class that implement ITradeTaxCalculation that will collect Trades in the same day and allow calculation of gain/loss, it would also do section104 matching here.
4. Write a ITradeCalculator that will take a TaxEventLists (that would have a list of FundTrade class and a FundAdjustment) and produce ITradeTaxCalculation with the results. You will do the adjustments needed here and you can probably reuse the tax matching algo.

For what is expected from a Parser see ITaxEventFileParser