Changing a txn from multicurrency to single currency

[Derek Atkins]

When you change the account it should reset the exchange rate and then
recompute.  However there are a lot of corner-cases where that doesn't
happen properly.  You've probably just discovered one of them. :(

-derek

Michael Goll <michel at goll.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've noticed an anomaly when I change a multiple currency txn to a single  
> currency while using gnucash 1.8.9
>
> When I originally create the txn say for a checking account in EUR and an  
> expense account in USD, I get the transfer dialog where I enter the correct  
> exchange rate.  If I later decide to change the expense account to one  
> denominated in EUR, it accepts the change in account without doing anything  
> about recalculating the amount to post.
>
> Worse still, in the ledger the amount appears in the correct currency, but the  
> balance for the account is computed using the old amount as if it were in USD  
> so the debits and credits don't agree with the balance column.  Looking at the  
> xac file it appears that there is no change in the txn split price or quantity  
> fields.  Further it's looking like the balance and debit/credit fields might  
> have different sources.
>
> I have both U.S. ande Euro accounts and in the past I got handled  
> multicurrency by having duplicate expense sub accounts, e.g. Allowance-USD and  
> ALLowance-EUR under an account Allowance, but this has led to an explosion of  
> accounts so I wanted to try using the built in multicurrency support.
>
> Is the multicurrency behavior working as intended?  It would seem to me that  
> it should at least offer a warning if it's not possible to recalculate the txn  
> split price and quantity fields.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Cheers...
> Michael
>
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