balance broken
Derek Atkins
warlord@MIT.EDU
05 Oct 2002 21:27:42 -0400
Hi,
I'm going through my old Gnucash mail. has this issue been
fixed in CVS?
-derek
Eildert Groeneveld <eg@tzv.fal.de> writes:
> On Tuesday 23 July 2002 19:34, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Note that a transaction touches multiple accounts. The "currency" in
> > the transaction is the "common currency" of the transaction (because
> > when you are dealing with "apples" and "oranges", you need some common
> > exchange method between them (e.g. Dollars).
> ok, that makes sense. The question is: where is the "common currency" defined?
> Is that the default currency when a "new file" is created?
> In my case that would have been EUR. The subaccount was then in USD.
> >
> > In this particular case your transaction touches accounts with GUIDs
> > 3393b4c322cb03f741b897315442915b and 9d8b567ddf610fc2ca8d85e744640062.
> > What accounts are these two? And what are their currencies? You claim
> > that "the accound[sic] for this transaction is in USD" -- which account?
> > What about the other account? And how did you create this transaction?
> >
> ok, the transaction was entered in the subaccount (USD). In the TRANSFER
> column reference was made to an account that was also in USD (income:ttUS)
>
> > If the second account is denominated in EUR, does this transaction
> > affect the balance there?
> this I do not know.
> >
> > I think I have an idea what is going on, but I need to know more
>
>
>
> > information about how you created this transaction and about the
> > particular accounts that this transaction touches, and how it looks
> > from _both_ accounts (you can use the 'jump' button to open the
> > register for the other account).
> yes indeed, I remember that in the jump account the transaction was
> accumulated ok.
>
> I started with completely new accounts hierarchy using the wizard.
> The currency I set to EUR.
> Then I created a new account as a subaccount to Assets:CurrentsAssets
> as USDaccount. Its currency was set to USD.
> Then I enter a first transaction in USDaccount and in transfer specify
> Income:salary
> This account is in EU (ofcourse)
> now, the amount entered does not show in USDaccount but does in
> income:salary
>
> So, it must be related to the conversion issue.
> Next I created a top hierarchy account USDconversion in USD as currency.
> Using the price editor I did get a quote for commodity USD into EUR as 1.0085
> (looks fine). Just to make sure I also created EURconversion in EUR which
> gives a 1 as a quote (to be expected).
> Now, the main gnucash accounts window shows 1111EUR for Income and for the
> USDaccount $0.00 (first total) and EUR0.00 for the second total.
>
>
> hope that helps a little.
>
> greetings
>
> Eildert
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > Eildert Groeneveld <eg@tzv.fal.de> writes:
> > > The accound for this transaction is in USD, however, the higher account
> > > is in EUR:
> > >
> > > <gnc:transaction version="2.0.0">
> > > <trn:id type="guid">72c5ac2e4c42a0695f8ba9bdf904d83d</trn:id>
> > > <trn:currency>
> > > <cmdty:space>ISO4217</cmdty:space>
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > <cmdty:id>EUR</cmdty:id> ========================== with USD its
> > > ok!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > </trn:currency>
> > > <trn:date-posted>
> > > <ts:date>2002-07-20 00:00:00 +0200</ts:date>
> > > </trn:date-posted>
> > > <trn:date-entered>
> > > <ts:date>2002-07-20 17:35:05 +0200</ts:date>
> > > <ts:ns>7185000</ts:ns>
> > > </trn:date-entered>
> > > <trn:description>pabry</trn:description>
> > > <trn:splits>
> > > <trn:split>
> > > <split:id type="guid">6a98b731f20a7643f9704628578bc47f</split:id>
> > > <split:memo>mabry</split:memo>
> > > <split:reconciled-state>n</split:reconciled-state>
> > > <split:value>275000/100</split:value>
> > > <split:quantity>0/100</split:quantity>
> > > <split:account
> > > type="guid">3393b4c322cb03f741b897315442915b</split:account>
> > > </trn:split>
> > > <trn:split>
> > > <split:id type="guid">76475808b8fa5ff8a4b1e6c16e95f041</split:id>
> > > <split:reconciled-state>n</split:reconciled-state>
> > > <split:value>-275000/100</split:value>
> > > <split:quantity>-275000/100</split:quantity>
> > > <split:account
> > > type="guid">9d8b567ddf610fc2ca8d85e744640062</split:account>
> > > </trn:split>
> > > </trn:splits>
> > > </gnc:transaction>
> > >
> > > On Monday 22 July 2002 13:53, Eildert Groeneveld wrote:
> > > > Dear all,
> > > > the balance problem has been with me for some time but I have not been
> > > > able to resolve the problem yet.
> > > > It seems that there are occasions when entering a deposit or making a
> > > > withdrawal that the balance does not change at all. This is also
> > > > substantiated by the report which gives a line for the deposit WITHOUT
> > > > the sum behind it. This happens for the current CVS version and started
> > > > some time around end of June (?). It seems that this is related to
> > > > having different currencies in the various accounts.
> > > >
> > > > How could I approach this problem?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Eildert Groeneveld
> > > > ==================================================
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> > > > Mariensee 31535 Neustadt Germany
> > > > Tel : (+49)(0)5034 871155 Fax : (+49)(0)5034 92579
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> --
> Eildert Groeneveld
> ==================================================
> Institute for Animal Science
> Mariensee 31535 Neustadt Germany
> Tel : (+49)(0)5034 871155 Fax : (+49)(0)5034 92579
> e-mail: eg@tzv.fal.de http://www.tzv.fal.de/~eg/
> ==================================================
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Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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