# Cash Account interest in Portfolio Total Return calculation

**URL:** <https://community.sharesight.com/t/cash-account-interest-in-portfolio-total-return-calculation/2215>\
**Category:** New feature ideas\
**Tags:** performance-return\
**Created:** [7 August 2026 02:16 UTC](https://community.sharesight.com/t/cash-account-interest-in-portfolio-total-return-calculation/2215 "2026-08-07T02:16:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dorlo01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@dorlo01](https://community.sharesight.com/u/dorlo01)\
**Post date:** [7 August 2026 02:16 UTC](https://community.sharesight.com/t/cash-account-interest-in-portfolio-total-return-calculation/2215/1 "2026-08-07T02:16:47Z")

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• What feature do you want to see in Sharesight? Interest received on cash accounts added to the Total Return on the portfolio home page.  
• Why do you want it? The Total Return is currently understated where a decent amount of the portfolio is held in cash.  
• How is this affecting you? We can’t see how our strategy is working when compared to market returns.  
• Do you currently have a workaround solution? If yes, what is it? Get the total interest from the tax income report and approximate the return.  
• Can we reach out in future to ask follow up questions about this idea? Yes

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**Author:** ![petelug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@petelug](https://community.sharesight.com/u/petelug)\
**Post date:** [7 August 2026 03:37 UTC](https://community.sharesight.com/t/cash-account-interest-in-portfolio-total-return-calculation/2215/2 "2026-08-07T03:37:20Z")

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I strongly support including interest in the performance calculation as it’s part of the portfolio.

Suggest it could be selectable if others want to exclude it.