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Fund accounting and NAV
82 products carry this category. Categories are tags, so several of these also appear elsewhere.
What is meant by Fund accounting and NAV?
Calculation of a fund's net asset value and production of its financial statements: valuing holdings, applying fees and expenses, allocating profit and loss across investor classes, and striking the price investors subscribe and redeem at.
Who uses Fund accounting and NAV?
Fund accountants, in-house or at an administrator.
What gets confused with Fund accounting and NAV?
Portfolio accounting. See that entry. Also confused with fund administration, which is the outsourced service that uses this software rather than the software itself.
What should you ask a vendor about Fund accounting and NAV?
Share class and fee complexity — equalisation, series accounting, hurdles — is where these systems diverge.
This definition is Buyside Fintech’s own editorial work, not a vendor’s. The products listed below carry the sources we read.
Fund accounting and NAV products
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