multi-currency issue

[Bengt Thuree]

On Ti, 2006-03-21, 11:03, Wouter van Marle skrev:
> On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 14:33 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
gzilla for this?
>
> Example: every line is account name (account type, account currency).
>
> -- Assets (asset, HKD)
>      -- AIA mutual funds (asset, HKD)
>          -- EUR funds (asset, EUR)
>              -- Fund 1 (mutual fund, fund price is in EUR)
>      -- Checking account (bank, HKD)
>
> EUR fund: price EUR20, EUR1=$10
> Bank account: current balance $20000
>
Take a look at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335101
It looks very much like my problem, but I could not get anything to work.


> The workaround:
> 1) make transaction from bank account to "EUR funds" asset account,
> converting HKD units to EUR units.
> 2) make transaction from "EUR funds" asset account to the the Fund 1
> mutual fund account, converting EUR units to "Fund 1" units.
> Now it works fine: change the EUR exchange rate, my asset value changes.
> Change the fund price (in EUR), the asset value changes with it.

I could not get the Exchange popup window to show up in my case.

/Bengt