Exchange rates in the "account summary"

[Wouter van Marle]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 10:53 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Which "price method" do you have configured in your report?
> I bet you've got it configured for Weighted Average instead
> of Nearest in Time or Latest in Time.

You were correct; that was the thing. I've now set it to "latest in
time" for these reports; makes most sense to me. It's after all about
now.

I'd prefer to have "nearest in time" or "latest in time" as default for
making reports - is it possible to set it like that?

Wouter.

> 
> -derek
> 
> Wouter van Marle <wouter at squirrel-systems.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've an issue with the account summary: the exchange rates are
> > incorrect. In my account tree I've a few foreign currency accounts, and
> > while they get calculated generally correctly in my base (HKD) currency
> > in this tree, it goes wrong for the "account summary" report.
> >
> > The exchange rates used there:
> >           Exchange rates 
> >                             EUR 1.00
> >                           HK$9.50005
> >                             TWD 1.00
> >                           HK$0.64462
> >                             USD 1.00
> >                           HK$1.28325
> >
> > The EUR rate is correct.
> > The USD rate however should be HK$ 7.759 / USD 1. I have entered so in
> > the price editor, I don't know where the 1.28325 comes from as I've
> > never given this.
> > Same for the TWD: the correct rate is TWD 1.0 / HKD 0.24, I have entered
> > so when entering TWD amounts.
> >
> > This is in GnuCash 1.8.11.
> >
> > Wouter.
>