Foreign currency account not balancing

[Floyd Hagen]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,

> Quoting Floyd Hagen <flohagen at montanadsl.net>:

> > I have an account in a Japanese bank, and I've been moving funds from it
> > to my bank here in the States.  When I transfer funds from the Japanese
> > account, which is in yen, I expected gnucash to do the math to convert
> > and balance the Japanese account out. However the balance in the JPY
> > account remains the same even though money is added to the USD account.
> > Did I miss something? 

> What version of GnuCash are you using?  How are you entering the money transfer
> into gnucash?  If you are not being prompted for an exchange rate when you
> enter the transfer then gnucash has no idea what to apply.  Depending on your
> particular version this bug may have been fixed (or introduced).

> -derek

Derek,

I'm using 1.8.8.  I think I was prompted for an exchange rate when I set
up the starting balance, but I can't be sure. I may have just entered it
myself.  The exchange rate is listed in the Price Editor, but it looks
like it's only being used for the Equity:Starting Balance account.