Sotcks in different currencies with differents bank accounts currencies

[Nicolas Scheffer]

Derek,

Regarding you first answer my bank account is Euro and if i buy USD 
stocks trough this bank account, why i cannot apply an exchange rate 
like expenses on a bank account ?

For the second answer, if i fill the transaction trough the bank 
account i will have also an exchange rate window or i will have the 
same problem ?

Maybe i do something wrong to setup my different accounts (stocks, 
banks, etc..) or does the current conception of Gnucash is not perfect 
to handle such case ?

Regards

Nicolas

On 21 déc. 04, at 15:28, Derek Atkins wrote:

Nicolas Scheffer <nico at airboum.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I got the several problem when i try to use Gnucash to manage my
> different stocks accounts:
> Here is first what i have :
> - bank A account in Euro
> - trader A1 where i have Euro Stock hold by bank A
> - trader A2 where i have USD Stock hold by Bank A
> - bank B account in USD
> - trader B1 where i have USD Stock hold by Bank B
>
> I use Euro as report currency and Yahoo Europe to fetch price with a
> Europe/Paris local time.
>
> Which part is working:
> When i try to handle Euro Stock with trader A1 with my Bank account A,
> there is no problem, report is correct.
>
> Which part is not working or partially:
> When i try to handle USD Stock with trader A2 with my Bank account A,
> i need to convert the buy or sell price before to enter the
> transaction, report is correct. Why i need to enter the price in Euro
> to have this working ?

Because account A is in Euro.

> When i try to handle USD Stock with trader B1 with my Bank account B,
> nothing is working, i try to play with an exchange rate to 1 to have
> the correct value on the bank account, but report show the USD amount
> in Euro for the same amount then gains are totally wrong! What to do ?
> Is there a bug to handle a such situation ?

Yes.  Enter the transaction from the account-B Register to work around
the bug.

> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards
>
> Nicolas Scheffer

-derek

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