mixed currency accounts at the same time

[Dino Vliet]

Hi there,

can you help me with this issue?

I am using Gnucash on FreeBSD 4.10 (version 1.8.8) and
I am very please with the product. My accounts are all
in euros.

For the holiday season, I will be travelling to South
America, Surinam where they have now SRD (surinamese
dollars).
I will bring euros to that country in cash and will
exchange it to surinam dollars step by step. But at
the same time, I will still want to keep track of that
money. 

How should I do this in Gnucash?
Should I create a asset called holiday_money for
instance, in surinamese dollars and increase its value
everytime I exchange the euros? Then I could credit it
when I buy things. But in what currency will those
stuff be booked because all my other accounts are in
euros.

So basically the question is, can I create mixed
currency accounts an d let gnucash track the exchange
rate and so I can only do the administration? Or does
anyone has another way of accomplishing the same? I
want to go on using Gnucash while on holiday and have
minimal work with calculating every transaction back
to euros when I spend the money during holidays.

Brgds and thanks in advance,



		
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