Question about managing multiple currencies

[Derek Atkins]

upgrade to 1.8 -- it handles this much better.

In 1.6 you need to create a 'currency' account in order to transfer
between different currencies, and you need in essence a duplicate set
of accounts for each currency.  In 1.8 it does a better jobs of
combining into a single set of accounts, but you have to still
remember how each account is denominated.

-derek

Will Galway <galway at pims.math.ca> writes:

> I'm a United States citizen living in Canada, so I have various assets
> (e.g., checking accounts, money market accounts) in both currencies.
> I had hoped that gnucash would let me handle that situation, but
> either I don't understand how currencies work in gnucash, or gnucash's
> concept of currencies is not sufficient for my needs.
> 
> Other than maintaining two completely separate sets of accounts, can
> anyone make a suggestion on what I should do?  (Or what I should be
> reading?)
> 
> I'm currently using gnucash 1.6.6, but I could upgrade...
> 
> I'm not a member of the gnucash-users mailing list, so please include
> a reply to my e-mail address.
> 
> -- Regards, Will
> ( mailto:galway at pims.math.ca http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/~wfgalway )
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