EURO-Stock and DM-Account / VAT

[Dave Peticolas]

Christian Stimming writes:
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> On Friday 20 April 2001 03:31, Klaus Ridder wrote:
> > 1.) EURO-Stock and DM-Account:
> > I have a mutual fund ("Wertpapierdepot") in EURO, and an Account in DM.
> > (This is still standard in Germany). When I now want to buy shares, I
> > cannot book this to my DM-Account. Is there any solution?
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> Other developers please correct me, but that's what I know: 
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> At the moment EURO and DEM are considered as totally different currencies, 
> at least when you try to transfer money. The current way of transferring 
> money would be to have another currency account which "exchanges" the 
> money between DEM and EURO. However, those two currencies have a fixed 
> exchange rate which is not appropriately represented right now. Where 
> should we start changing? Add currency accounts with a fixed exchange 
> rate? Exchange EURO currencies on-the-fly?

At this point, I don't think we have time to add a new account type
for 1.6. However, Herbert Thoma has extended the transfer dialog to
help with currency transfers. Although I don't believe it currently
fills in the exchange rate automatically for EURO currencies <-> EURO,
I think that would be pretty easy to add. What do you think, Herbert?

dave