tutorial on multi-currency accounting

[Derek Atkins]

Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> writes:

> The transaction balancing code in xaccTransGetImbalance assumes all 
> exchange rates are correct.  A transaction involving more than one 
> commodity has an implied exchange rate between the commodities which 
> can be determined by comparing the amount and value fields of the 
> various splits.  This is used to create the new splits to balance the 
> individual commodity amounts in the transaction.  The bottom line is 
> that the balancing split will be created using the exchange rate 
> specified when the transaction was entered which I think is the best we 
> can do.

If a user later goes back and changes the exchange rate, will your
scrubber update the balancing splits?

-derek
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