Foreign currency accounts and transactions.

[Derek Atkins]

Adam Funk <a24061 at yahoo.com> writes:

> On 2006-09-07, Adam Funk <a24061 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>>> Is it necessary to "Edit Exchange Rate" for every transaction that
>>>> isn't in the main currency?  Or should it pick up the previous value,
>>>> or the value from the Price Editor?
>>>
>>> You need to set it for every transaction.  It SHOULD happen
>>> automatically, but apparently there are bugs where this does not
>>> happen properly in all cases.
>>
>> I'll do a few more in the same place and see what happens.
>
>>>> How in the world can the accounts balance when I forget to E-E-R?
>>>
>>> The TRANSACTION is balanced, which is all GnuCash is checking at the
>>> moment.  However it's not balancing in terms of changes-in-capital.
>>> But GnuCash doesn't check that now.
>>
>> I think I see what you mean.  I think it treated the transaction
>> without EER as having a value of GBP0.00 in the relevant Expenses
>> account.
>
> I tried it a few more times in the same USD account.  If I don't EER
> each transaction, it shows up as GBP0.00 in the expense account!
> (Fortunately the EER window comes up with the previous value
> pre-loaded.)  Is this a reportable bug?

See above.  "It SHOULD happen automatically, but apparently there
are bugs where this does not happen properly in all cases".

-derek

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