tutorial on multi-currency accounting

[Guillaume Lessard]

Peter and developers,

I completely agree with these documents. I didn't manage to figure out what 
was wrong by myself, but clearly this is the right way. As it is, every 
time I travel I feel like Gnucash hinders my accounting... why should that 
be?

Cheers,

--
Guillaume Lessard
glessard at tffenterprises.com



--On February 22, 2007 4:09:22 -0400 Peter Selinger 
<selinger at mathstat.dal.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed that multiple currencies in GnuCash do not work very well
> with double-entry accounting. I have investigated the issue and
> written a tutorial explaining how double-entry multi-currency
> accounting should work. Perhaps someone may find this interesting:
>
> http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html
>
> I have also written a fairly detailed critique of multi-currency
> accounting in GnuCash, with some suggestions for how it could be
> improved. Unlike the tutorial above, this second document is specific
> to GnuCash, but must be read after the tutorial:
>
> http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/gnucash.html
>
> I hope someone will find this useful, and perhaps even implement it.
> Comments?
>
> Thanks, -- Peter