Foreign investment problems

[Danny Ciarniello]

Derek Atkins wrote:

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>Danny Ciarniello <Dan_Ciarniello at telus.net> writes:
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>>I appreciate the USD isn't a Stock.  Maybe I wasn't entirely clear
>>with the problem.  When I create a new file and use the wizard to
>>create a set of Investment accounts, I get an account tree like:
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>>Assets
>>- Investments
>>-- Brokerage Account
>>--- Bond
>>--- Stock
>>--- Market Index
>>--- Mutual Fund
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>>plus, of course, the Income and Expense trees.  When I right-click and
>>select Edit Account, the settings for each account are:
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>>Assets : Type Asset, Commodity CAD
>>Investments : Type Asset, Commodity CAD
>>Brokerage Account : Type Bank, Commodity CAD
>>Bond : Type Stock, Commodity CAD
>>Stock : Type Stock, Commodity CAD
>>Market Index : Type Mutual Fund, Commodity CAD
>>Mutual Fund : Type Mutual Fund, Commodity CAD
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>>As one can see, all accounts have commodity set to CAD.
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>As one can see, this is a bug.  The hierarchy druid should not
>create accounts of type Stock or Mutual with a currency.  This
>is a bug, and I'm telling you that the way to fix it is to properly
>set a commodity on those accounts.
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Thanks to both you and Aaron.  I now have a better understanding of what 
is going on here and I see that there is a bug; it's just not where I 
thought it was.  I will browse the bug list to see if it has already 
been reported.  If not, I will submit a report myself.

Dan.

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