Connect currency exchange transactions and pricedb, or not?

[Derek Atkins]

This is almost exactly what we do in Gnucash..  There is a transaction
currency and each split has two "amount" fields.  The Split Value is
denoted in the Txn Currency.  The Split Amount is denoted in the
commodity of the Split's Account (aka the "foreign currency").

-derek

Nicholas Lee <nj.lee@plumtree.co.nz> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 07:57:45PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > 
> > Yea, been there, done that, decided I was wrong...  The pricedb is
> > just for convenience of user-input..  Each transaction can have its
> > own exchange rate.
> 
> Heh.  This might interest you:
> http://kt.zork.net/GNUe/gnue20021109_54.html#11
> 
> Nice simple schema for multi-currency GL.
> 
> 
> Nicholas

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