Transfer between Accounts with different Currencies

[Frank Burkhardt]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:51:32AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> FBO <fbo2 at gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > 1.8.1
> 
> Well, you can try 1.8.2, but I don't think much has been changed in this
> area.
As soon as debian offers it, i'll get it.

I made a little mistake in my first post. Another try:


(*Reality*) 1 EUR = 1.955830 DEM ; 1 DEM = 0.511292 EUR

There are 2 accounts "DEM" and "EUR", both account's registers are
empty. I want to transfer 100 DEM from "DEM" to "EUR"
The "Transfer Funds"-Dialog opens, showing

 Exchange Rate = 1,955830 (*1*)
  1 DEM = 1.955830            // Wrong (see (*Reality*) )
  1 EUR = 0.511292            // Wrong, too

Gnucash seems to know the correct exchange rate but maybe someone
exchanged "/" and "*".

"DEM"'s balance is DEM -100 now. The status line below the toolbar shows

 -DEM 100,00 / -51,13 EUR (*2*)
 
which is correct but "EUR"'s balance is EUR 195,58 (*3*) .
This is wrong according to (*Reality*) but correct according
to the Exchange Rate in the "Transfer Funds"-Dialog.

Questions:

 Why is the default exchange rate (*1*) wrong (it should be 0.511292)?
 Why are (*2*) and (*3*) two different values?


Regards,

Frank