[GNC] Account Currency Screwed Up Again!

[rsbrux]

Thanks to all for your patient explanations and help.

@Adrien,

For the time being I have just inserted currency account levels in my 
existing tree as recommended here:

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stocks/add_stock#Stocks_noted_in_foreign_currency

You have raised some interesting considerations which might move me to 
adopt a different structure, but I couldn't find the part of the guide 
you were referring to.  Can you provide a link?

> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:39:01 -0600
> From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
> To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Account Currency Screwed Up Again!
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> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
>> On Feb 11, 2020 w7d42, at 1:20 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> wrote:
>> The transaction currency in which the value field of every split is
> denominated is determined by the account in whose register one creates the
> transaction. If that account is in a non-currency commodity then the
> currency of first parent account denominated in a currency is used. So in
> rsbrux's case where he had a stock XYZ under a CHF parent and bought using
> AUD, the stock split will have an amount in XYZ and a value in CHF and the
> cash split will have an amount in AUD and a value in CHF. That's a
> three-way transaction with two prices: XYZ->CHF and AUD->CHF. Both should
> be recorded in the price database. If he used basic view or was careless
> about entering the price and values the AUD->CHF price might be 1 and the
> XYZ->CHF price might have the value of XYZ's price in AUD.
>> Had he instead had the parent of the XYZ account in AUD as he should
> have or if had created the transaction starting in the cash account then
> the transaction currency would be AUD and only the stock split would have
> a price.
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>