reporting and currency issues after 1.4 -> 1.6 upgrade

Linas Vepstas linas@linas.org
Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:00:23 -0600


On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 04:53:28PM -0500, waxmop@gtcinternet.com was heard to remark:
> seems as if gnucash is converting my accounts into US dollars, even though
> the accounts themselves are in US dollars.
> 
> I've checked all my accounts and they are all USD type AMEX, which seems
> like the correct config.

No;
AMEX is the "AMerican stock EXchange", and so gnucash thinks that you 
bought a bunch of stock having the "USD" ticker symbol on this exchange.  

Three-letter abbreviations for currencies are defined in the ISO4217 
standard. You want that.

--linas


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