Multicurrency and 1.6.3

[Dave Peticolas]

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On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 16:46, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Hija,
>=20
> first of all I'd like to thank you for this great application. Some
> time ago I decided to go for a bit more organised life and gnucash
> helped me a lot with that.
>=20
> Now for the problems: :)
> Most european countries have been switching over to the Euro in some
> areas and as such it's really a shame that it's non-trivial to use
> GnuCash for that; it's unpossible in any EU country to pay stock
> shares in the old currency but there seems to be no easy way to
> simply tell GnuCash that the stocks are handled in Euro but the=20
> money is transferred from or to a DEM account; going over a special
> account to switch currencies is not only complicated and timeconsuming
> but also errorprone.=20

Yes, it certainly is. The next major release of GnuCash, hopefully
before the end of the year, will allow you to transfer between any
two accounts directly, no intermediate currency accounts required.


> I also have no idea how to tell the "Portofolio" script to use EUR
> instead of DEM by default; it always jumps back to DEM though there
> is not a single stock account in this currency (there's no way to
> by shares in DEM anymore....)

Have you tried changing the 'default' currency to EUR in the settings
window?


> Another thing that would be really handy is an builtin calculator;
> because of the above mentioned deficits I always had to recalculate the
> single entries of my wagecalculation into DEM since I have been paid
> in DEM but everything was companyinternally calculated in EUR to=20
> be able to get an overview of the single items and the paid taxes
> in general.

You can enter expressions in any field that accepts numerical
input. You can even define conversion variables (x=3D5.5) and gnucash
will remember them.

dave


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