DEM-Account -> buying stocks in EUR

[Klaus Dahlke]

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Hi all,

I have the same problem and I also couldn't find an easy solution: To my experience you need the following accounts:

1) BANK account in DEM
2) CURRENCY account in DEM, security in EUR
3) BANK account in EUR

>From DEM-BANK money is transferred to the currency account and from there as EUR to the EUR-BANK account. From this EURO-Account stocks, fonds etc. can be bought With 1.4.9 I managed to buy/sell directly from the CURRENCY account, but it seems not to work in 1.6. 

I am still asking myself whether I should do the effort for half a year or simply do some lump sum postings and start all over in EUR only January 1st, 2002.

Sorry for not having a better answer.

Cheers,
Klaus
> Hi!
> 
> I recently updated from GnuCash 1.4.x to 1.6.0 (after I found all necessary
> RPMs at Rawhide) - using Redhat 7.1.
> 
> The first problem I encountered is, that a windowpositions are wrong:
> a) the main-window is full maximized on startup (800x600), but on the
>    wrong position. It does not start at +0+0, but on +0+10.
> b) the register headings are wrong, I tried to minimize the description
>    column, but every time I re-enter the register it's wrong again.
> 
> Both happens although the setting for saving window positions is on.
> 
> This is only a minor problem, but a solution would be great for this,
> since I only have 800x600 on my laptop and I hate to minimize and
> maximize the headers all the time.
> 
> 
> Now my big problem: All my accounts have the currency DEM.
> Beside my account from my homebank I now got an account from a foreign
> bank for buying stocks.
> The bankaccount has the currency DEM, and I transfered x DEM from my
> homebank to this account.
> 
> Then I set up a stock account for buying fonds. This account has the
> currency EUR. I tried to buy some stocks, but GnuCash don't let me do
> this. How can I solve this problem. I cannot switch all my accounts to
> EUR yet, because most things are payed in DEM, especially all the things
> I buy in cash.
> 
> I found a little workaround by changing the bankaccount from "bank" to
> "currency", but even then I have to enter transactions between my
> homebank and my stockbank manually: the stockbank account was set up as
> currency DEM->EUR, but I have to enter the exchange rate (if I transfer
> x DEM from homebank to the stockbank, I have x EUR there, until I
> manually change the rate to 1,95538).
> 
> Please tell me that there is an easier way to handle both: DEM and EUR
> accounts. I thought there shouldn't be a problem, since there is a fixed
> exchange rate.
> 
> Matthias
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