Sotcks in different currencies with differents bank accounts currencies

[Derek Atkins]

Nicolas Scheffer <nico at airboum.net> writes:

> Derek,
>
> Regarding you first answer my bank account is Euro and if i buy USD
> stocks trough this bank account, why i cannot apply an exchange rate
> like expenses on a bank account ?

Your Euro bank account can only handle Euro transactions.  You can't
translater between Euro, USD, *AND* a stock in one transaction.

> For the second answer, if i fill the transaction trough the bank
> account i will have also an exchange rate window or i will have the
> same problem ?

You should get the exchange-rate dialog.

> Maybe i do something wrong to setup my different accounts (stocks,
> banks, etc..) or does the current conception of Gnucash is not perfect
> to handle such case ?

Gnucash does not handle implicit exchange rates, which is what you're
asking for.  GnuCash also does not handle explicit transaction
currencies, which is also what you're asking for.

> Regards
>
> Nicolas

-derek

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