how are multiple currency transactions supposed to work?

greg gmott at ntlworld.com
Mon Oct 27 07:16:40 CST 2003


On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:35, Derek Atkins wrote:
> greg <gmott at ntlworld.com> writes:
> > (gnucash-1.8.7) register, $US credit card account, new transaction,
> > press split, enter 20 under Charge, select £UK expense account for other
> > account, enter 10 under Payment, rightclick on the 10, select Edit
> > Exchange Rate, enter .5, press OK, press enter, register shows
> > unbalanced transaction (10.00 more needed under Payment), just as if
> > both accounts were $US, or as if the exchange rate were 1:1, neither of
> > which is true.  try to accept transaction, gnucash posts Rebalance
> > Transaction popup.
> 
> AHA..  Yes, you entered an imbalanced transaction!  So, it's behaving
> exactly correct here.
> 
> > is there something i missed?  is this how it is supposed to work?  am i
> > supposed to keep an Imbalance account to receive all the bogus imbalance
> > figures?
> 
> Yes, you missed the fact that you are always editing in the same currency!
> Even when you choose an account of another currency, you always see ALL
> numbers in the "current" currency.

got it.  thank you very much.
-greg



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