Adjusted Cost Basis (ACB)

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Average cost basis in PP

Hello, Italian user here! I don’t speak german, so I will write in english. I just discovered this very useful program (thanks to an advice from an italian user in a financial forum), and I’m trying to get the best of it. Unfortunately, PP calculates the average cost per share very differently compared to my online broker, which doesn’t use the FIFO methodology, but instead the average cost basis (ACB). This creates problems in the calculation of capital gains and taxes. The following example…