a different conversion from BEF to EUR

[Mw. Mr. V.M.H. Schaars]

Thomas,

In live in the Netherlands and use GnuCash since 2000 for my business
activities. I didn't want to have all these double accounts either, so
this is what I did:

For each account I calculated the total of the transactions done in 2000
and the total of the transactions done in 2001. I transferred these
amounts from national currency to EUR manually. The EUR amounts I put
into two transactions named "transactions 2000" and "transactions 2001"
in the corresponding account in a new file. This new file holds exactly
the same accounts as my old file, but in EUR. This way you can always
see your history in the file you're working on. For detailed hystoric
information you need to open the old file with national currencies.

It may not be the most elegant solution and it may not be an answer to
your question, but this works for me. Maybe it will give you some new
ideas. And after all: This is a once in a lifetime problem, isn't it?


Veronique Kwaaitaal-Schaars

Mw. Mr. V.M.H. Kwaaitaal-Schaars (Veronique)
Infocal
I www.infocal.nl
E v.m.h.schaars@infocal.nl

On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 11:48, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I live in Belgium and I would like to convert my BEF accounts to EUR.
> I have tried the wizards, but they do not do what I want.  I can 
> understand how what they do makes sense from other people's point of view, 
> but for me it's a hassle to have each account be split up in a "before 
> conversion" and "after conversion" part.
> 
> What I would rather want is actually fairly simple ;-) I want to reach 
> into the data files, convert each amount to EUR by dividing them by 
> 40.3399, and then change the id for the currency from BEF to EUR.
> A clean one-stop conversion, making me believe that I never ever typed 
> anything in in BEF.
> 
> My question is : is there some way in the current framework to do that ? 
> If not, how hard would it be for me to understand the basic format of 
> gnucash data files and do this myself ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Thomas
> 
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