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Money: Why Is the Annualized Percent Return So Large

Article ID: 175919

Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007

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SYMPTOMS

When you look at the Perfomance View of investments in Microsoft Money 98 and later, or at one of the Performance reports in Microsoft Money 5.0 and later, you may see some large values for the Annualized Percent(%) Return.

CAUSE

This can be caused by an Add Shares transactions for that investment.

An Add Shares transaction has no price, so the effective cost basis is zero.

This can also happen if you only have recent transactions for this investment where your purchase price is significantly below the current price.

MORE INFORMATION

The more information Money has available the more accurate the Annualized Percent Return calculations will be.

For additional information on how Money calculates the Annualized Percent(%) Return, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

131664 Invest Performance Calculated Using Internal Rate of Return

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