multi-currency accounts

[Christian Stimming]

Eildert Groeneveld wrote:

> The standard currency in my setup is Euro. There two more accounts with other 
> currencies. These three accounts are subaccounts. The total of all three 
> accounts seems to be given correctly in the higher level account. Each 
> account has two TOTAL columns  in the main accounts ledger. While the first 
> column gives the accounts total correctly in the respective national 
> currency, the second is in Euro (i.e. the standard currency). For foreign 
> currency the sum is always 0,00 EU; is this a feature or a bug?


The "Euro" column in the account tree window was never designed to show 
the actual exchanged value, by retrieving the price from the price 
database or from somewhere else. Instead, that Euro column was only 
supposed to work for Euroland-Currencies. So since January this year 
this column is pretty useless.

Instead, prices from the price editor are used in most of the reports. 
Try the "Account Overview" ("Kontoübersicht" or similar) report and play 
around with the multi-currency settings in the options. These should 
give you the numbers that you need. Also, your report settings will be 
restored from session to session *if* you leave those report windows 
open upon gnucash shutdown. For me, I basically switched to only 
choosing accounts from the acccount overview report and not using the 
account hierarchy view anymore.

Christian