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Cashbook

Cashbook lists the expenditure and income in your portfolio. When you buy or sell or make a cashbook entry, cashbook logs the, price, quantity, transaction time, cashbook balance @ time of transaction etc.

For a full breakdown of Cashbook table parameters: Click here
  • The cashbook balance
    Shows the amount of cash you have/don't have after trading in the shares in your portfolio.

    A cost like the purchase of shares is deducted from the cashbook total. So if on your first buy in you spend £12,000.00

    Cashbook balance is £ 0
    Payments = -£12,000.00
    New Cashbook balance = -£12,000.00

    The cashbook balance is always relative to current investment costs, the profits/losses you've accumulated whilst trading.

    So if you had previously sold all your shares and made £1000.00 profit and then bought £12,000.00 of shares your deficit will be £11,000.00.

    Cashbook balance is £1,000.00
    Payments -£12,000.00
    New Cashbook balance = -£11,000.00

    As far as cashbook is concerned the profit from your initial investment is offsetting the second investment.

You can add and subtract money from the cash book
  • Cash Entry
    Adding and subtracting money from your cashbook balance
    There may times when you wish to modify the cashbook balance
    To do this click on the Cash entry button in the menu bar.
    This will take you to the User Cashbook Entry form

    User Cashbook Entry form
    Enter the hours in the 24hrs field otherwise it will fail check form.
    Enter the total you wish to add or subtract (minus sum),
    Enter any notes you wish in the 'Description' field
    Press the Check Form Button.
    If all is well an Alter Log button will appear. Click on the Alter Log button to enter the change to cashbook, the cashbook entry will also register inthe transactions table.