[Fwd: reporting/account currencies]

[Herbert Thoma]

Bill Gribble wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:09:38PM -0600, linas@linas.org wrote:
> > No.  Because this returns the "wrong thing".  For an ibm stock
> > account, it would return IBM.  Whereas both the main window, and
> > the register need USD (the "reporting currency").
>
> It's my position (call it "position B" :) that we should change the
> main window first, so that it always reports the share balance rather
> than the valued balance.
>
> For IBM, you SHOULD be seeing the number of shares of IBM if you are
> just looking at the bare-bones account tree widget.  It shouldn't be
> expected to do fancy interpretation, just to report what you have in
> your accounts.  If you want to see the $$ balance, look at the
> portfolio report, which you will be able to set as your "main window"
> as soon as rgmerk gets his pane-window patch in.

I like this idea.

 Herbert.
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