[GnuCash 1.9.1] Common-commodity difference

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Mar 8 16:04:49 EST 2006


Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> writes:

> (with a CAD -> USD pricedb entry of 0.72 CAD = 1 USD
>
> SX template 1:
> | usd | 20 |    | => 20     USD [txn: usd]
> | cad |    | 20 | => 14.40  CAD
>
> SX template 2:
> | cad |    | 20 | => 20     CAD [txn: cad]
> | usd | 20 |    | => 27.78  USD

I wonder if you should pop up the Exchange Rate Dialog instead of
depending on the PriceDB?  Unless you have a pricedb for the actual
date of the txn, this might be unsafe.

-derek
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