Makeup Assignment - Compare Two Mutual Funds

Detail report file updated 11/25

due Sunday, November 29th,  8:00 pm

This optional assignment may be used to add to your midterm score or to replace your lowest assignment grade. It is worth a maximum of 20 points. You may not raise your midterm score above 90.  Your goal in the completion of this assignment is to raise your grade, to learn something, to gain a sense of accomplishment, and to write a program that you are proud of.

The assignment is not charity.  Do not turn in an incomplete assignment.  Do not turn in the assignment late.  Do not turn in an assignment with errors.  Do not turn in an assignment with the wrong answers.  You can code tests cases using the sample output below.  The assignment will not be accepted late or with errors.

Appointment Times for Oral Review

Terms and Conditions

1. This assignment must be submitted by email. Include your program source code, 4 input files, sample output, and the output detail file as attachments. The assignment must be received by November 29th,  8:00 pm .
2. You must also schedule a ten minute oral review of the code on either Monday 11/30 or Tuesday 12/1.  The review will consist of 5 questions about your solution.  If you are unable to satisfactorily answer questions about your code, you will not receive credit for the assignment.  The purpose of this oral review is to prove that the code you submit is yours and that you can communicate your design and implementation.  Sample questions:
• What is the purpose of line 155?
• What happens to the function argument of line 212?
• How does line 178 work?
• What is the purpose of the XXX function?
• Why did you design the YYY constructor like that?
3. You may not get any help on this assignment from other students, friends, co-workers, or family members.  You may ask the instuctor for assistance or clarification.  Any assignments received with obviously similar solutions will be rejected.
4. When you submit your assignment, you must specify whether you want to apply the points toward your midterm or to use it to replace your lowest assignment grade
5. As part of the grade, the instructor will compile and execute your source code. Programs that do not compile, or do not run, will not be accepted.
6. The grade received on this assignment will be applied to your midterm points or toward the lowest or missing assignment grade.  Your midterm grade may not exceed 90 points.
7. Your grade will be based on completion of the program requirements listed below, program accuracy, ingenuity, conciseness, code re-use, documentation, neatness, and the oral code review.  Grading on this assignment will be strict.  The instructor will check the accuracy of your detailed report, running the same mutual funds and dates that you submit.  On this assignment, you will be penalized for a lack of neatness or organization of your code, and also for compiler warnings that are the result of non-portable code or inaccurate coding techniques.

Program Objective

Program Requirements

1. Your solution must contain the use of 2 or more classes of your design.
2. The program must read in four data files.  There is a historical price file and and a dividend file for each fund.
3. The historical price and dividend data must be stored in arrays or vectors.
4. The history data must contain the same dates for both mutual funds.
5. The data files contain data for about 15 years.
6. Use $10000 as an initial investment for each fund.  You will buy $10000 in shares on the purchase date, then sell those shares + dividend reinvested shares on the sell date.  Note, dividends are not awarded on the purchase date, but may be on the sell date.
7. In addition to the Average gain results from above, the program must produce a detail report file showing the result of each random comparison.  It should look like the output below.  

Detailed Report File  (Output updated 11/25)