Multiple Currencies

[Martin Roennebeck]

Mike,
I am using the brand new 2.3.17 SVN r19852 and I just double checked  
again. Assets and Liabilities don't match, the difference is exactly  
the Currency trading accounts balance.
Martin


Quoting Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu>:

> --On December 2, 2010 5:30:49 AM +0100 Martin Roennebeck  
> <martin.roennebeck at web.de> wrote:
>
> Please reply to the list so others can see the discussion.
>
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> Maybe the problem is, that I am using the german language settings.
>> The Currency Trading accounts do not appear in the 'normal' balance
>> sheet, in the eguile version there is one line saying
>> "Ausgleichsbetrag", which means something like 'difference'. This
>> line matches with the Currency Trading account.
>>
>> For P&L I don't necessarily would need to see the result, since it is
>> unrealised P&L and the P&L reports -so far- only show realised P&L.
>
> Yes I was wondering about that too.
>
>> I tried to switch back to english version (by changing the
>> environment variables), but then GnuCash crashed during start.
>>
>> I also remember that in old versions I saw something like Unrealised
>> Profit in the Balance sheet, but I am not absolutely sure. However, I
>> wouldn't go back through different versions to check, whether (and if
>> yes when) it changed in one release.
>>
>> Anyway, the key point is, that I cannot select the Trading accounts
>> in the balance sheet in the options. Would be nice, but to be honest,
>> this is not a very big issue. When I need to hand out the balance
>> sheet, I just export to Excel, change the totals on equity and add
>> one line for unrealised Profit. Not too difficult. Otherwise I would
>> have posted it on Bugzilla.
>
> What version of Gnucash are you using?  Maybe you said, but I can't  
> find the EMail right now.  Any recent version should just  
> automatically use trading accounts in the balance sheet report if  
> they exist, there is no option to use or not use them.  This is not  
> dependent on the language (or at least shouldn't be).  I haven't  
> tried it in a non-English system, but so far as I know nothing is  
> dependent on the English name of things.
>
> The Unrealized Gain or Loss in the balance sheet report was, for one  
> of the reports, the sum of Income and Expense accounts, and for the  
> other just a fudge factor to make things balance.  I forget which is  
> which between the old and eguile versions.
>
> I'm out of town right now, but when I get home I'll make sure it  
> works in a non-English system.
>
>          Mike
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