New trading accounts for currencies - help in setting up

Mike Alexander mta at umich.edu
Fri Mar 25 16:39:31 EDT 2011


--On March 25, 2011 11:48:14 AM -0700 Ian K <ik522000 at yahoo.co.uk> 
wrote:

> You don't need to set the trading accounts up yourself -they are
> created automatically as required. When you create a trading-type
> transaction then if the relevant trading accounts don't exist they
> are created. I was similarly unsure but with some trial and error I
> got there.

And each trading account is (like any other account) in a single 
currency or other commodity.  If a transactions involves splits in 
multiple currencies or commodities then it will have splits in multiple 
trading accounts also if you are using trading accounts.

      Mike
 


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