Accounts with different currencies

Dave Carrigan dave@rudedog.org
24 Dec 2001 15:57:32 -0800


I'm using a recent CVS version of gnucash. 

I have a question about using accounts with different currencies. Most
of my accounts are $USD, but I have one bank account in $CAD. I created
it with an opening balance along with the rest of my $USD asset
accounts, and entered the exchange rate in the price editor.  This seems
to work fine. The total of the assets is correct after factoring the
exchange rate.

Next, I created a liability (loan), also in $CAD, and this also worked.

The problem is when I try to make an entry between the two $CAD
accounts. The balance in either account doesn't change. I.e, in the
register for the bank account, it shows

  Date        Description       Transfer     Deposit  Withdrawal  Balance
  11/17/2001  Opening Balance   Equity...     550.69               650.69
  11/19/2001  Loan payment      Loan...                   166.07   650.69

Is there some step that I'm missing?

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