Unbalanced balance sheet

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe]

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 16:17 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jrposting at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> > It is a single transaction. The shares are bought, not sold, and I am
> > charged a fee for buying them, which I charge against the Expenses
> > account, so (my main reporting currency is GBP, but all 3 off these
> > account are in EUR), 200 gets transferred out of Asset:Current. 4.09
> > goes into Expenses, and the 195.91 rest get converted into shares in
> > Assets:Share.
> >
> > Why does this cause an unbalance of EUR 4.10?
> 
> How do you know it's an imbalance of EUR 4.10 if you're reporting in GBP?

Apologies for the confusion - bit of trouble with the old finger/brain
interface. What I meant was that my main reporting currency is EUR, but
the 3 accounts in question are in GBP.

Jeff
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