Sotcks in different currencies with differents bank accounts
currencies
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Dec 21 09:28:03 EST 2004
Nicolas Scheffer <nico at airboum.net> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I got the several problem when i try to use Gnucash to manage my
> different stocks accounts:
> Here is first what i have :
> - bank A account in Euro
> - trader A1 where i have Euro Stock hold by bank A
> - trader A2 where i have USD Stock hold by Bank A
> - bank B account in USD
> - trader B1 where i have USD Stock hold by Bank B
>
> I use Euro as report currency and Yahoo Europe to fetch price with a
> Europe/Paris local time.
>
> Which part is working:
> When i try to handle Euro Stock with trader A1 with my Bank account A,
> there is no problem, report is correct.
>
> Which part is not working or partially:
> When i try to handle USD Stock with trader A2 with my Bank account A,
> i need to convert the buy or sell price before to enter the
> transaction, report is correct. Why i need to enter the price in Euro
> to have this working ?
Because account A is in Euro.
> When i try to handle USD Stock with trader B1 with my Bank account B,
> nothing is working, i try to play with an exchange rate to 1 to have
> the correct value on the bank account, but report show the USD amount
> in Euro for the same amount then gains are totally wrong! What to do ?
> Is there a bug to handle a such situation ?
Yes. Enter the transaction from the account-B Register to work around
the bug.
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards
>
> Nicolas Scheffer
-derek
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