I notice that the asset values entered on the Assets & Savings screen and the Retirement Accounts screen appear to be increased by the inflation rate when they appear on the first (2010) line of the various reports. With the reports using "today's dollars" I would have expected the data in the two places to be identical.
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This is a subtle point and one which I took a long to get a handle on. The reports are all in end of period dollars, which means that 2010 dollars reported out for regular assets have to have the inflation (and growth) calculated. I argue about this with Larry from time to time and we may switch to beginning of period dollars at some point, but it's a big change to do that. Larry can fill in the economic details.
Best,
Dick Munroe