mixed currency accounts at the same time

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Any single account can hold only one currency or commodity.  This means you need
to have separate expense accounts for expenses in different currencies.

-derek

Quoting Dino Vliet <dino_vliet at yahoo.com>:

> 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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