Foreign currency accounts and transactions.

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-09-07, Adam Funk <a24061 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>>> Is it necessary to "Edit Exchange Rate" for every transaction that
>>> isn't in the main currency?  Or should it pick up the previous value,
>>> or the value from the Price Editor?
>>
>> You need to set it for every transaction.  It SHOULD happen
>> automatically, but apparently there are bugs where this does not
>> happen properly in all cases.
>
> I'll do a few more in the same place and see what happens.

>>> How in the world can the accounts balance when I forget to E-E-R?
>>
>> The TRANSACTION is balanced, which is all GnuCash is checking at the
>> moment.  However it's not balancing in terms of changes-in-capital.
>> But GnuCash doesn't check that now.
>
> I think I see what you mean.  I think it treated the transaction
> without EER as having a value of GBP0.00 in the relevant Expenses
> account.

I tried it a few more times in the same USD account.  If I don't EER
each transaction, it shows up as GBP0.00 in the expense account!
(Fortunately the EER window comes up with the previous value
pre-loaded.)  Is this a reportable bug?