Running balance in register not correct
Derek Atkins
warlord@MIT.EDU
24 Nov 2002 12:48:17 -0500
This is already a "known bug" -- indeed, there are a number of
multi-currency issues in GnuCash and the new register. Check bugzilla
and make sure it's there. If not, feel free to add a new one. Or if
there is something close, feel free to add a comment.
-derek
Nigel Titley <nigel@titley.com> writes:
> Further to this....
>
> Going through the XML and changing all occurrences of USD to GBP has
> fixed the problem.
>
> Still a bug though. Do you want me to raise it on bugzilla?
>
> Nigel
>
> On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 17:53, Nigel Titley wrote:
> > Just ran up the CVS version with a blank slate. I followed through the
> > account creation druid, selected GBP as the default currency, and then
> > just selected the "common" account tree. Then entered a few transactions
> > in the Checking account. This was mostly transfers to "cash in wallet"
> > apart from a small opening balance.
> >
> > The running balance does not reflect the entered transactions, and
> > neither do the transactions appear in the reconcile window.
> >
> > The cash in wallet account shows the transactions, but again does not
> > show the correct running balance. Running a reconcile on this account
> > shows the transactions, but all with a value of zero.
> >
> > I recall this running balance problem occuring before (Jun-Jul 2002) and
> > it being related to a currency conversion issue, but here all the
> > accounts should be in the same currency.... let's see
> >
> > Ahh-ha.... a look at the XML shows that the transactions are being
> > entered as USD, which is why they aren't being summed.
> >
> > I suspect that even though I have asked for the default to be GBP in the
> > druid, that this isn't being recorded as the default currency for
> > transactions.
> >
> > Can someone look at this please. Its a bit of a showstopper for new
> > users.
> >
> > Nigel
> >
> > PS Everything seems to work fine on the account tree I brought over from
> > 1.6.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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