Buying US stocks from a canadian cash account

[Derek Atkins]

Unfortunately you need an intermediate USD account to handle the exchange from
CAD to USD.

-derek

Quoting Martin Hicks <mort at bork.org>:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure how to do this.  I have an investment account that has
> is in canadian dollars.  I have purchased a US stock.  The way this is
> represented is that the purchase price and the commission are in $USD
> and then there is an exchange rate applied to the whole transaction.
>
> How would I properly express this in gnucash?
> thanks in advance,
> mh
>
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