Mixed-currency transactions broken in Gnucash 2?

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 05:12:09PM +0000, Tim Jackson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> This has worked fine for years, but with GnuCash 2, foreign currency 
> transactions seem to break in a worrying way which actually undermines 
> GnuCash's basic principle (i.e. double-entry accounting).

Yes, this is a bug, and actually, it has never worked correctly. :(

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139651

-chris

> 
> Let's say I have account A which is in EUR, and accounts B and C which 
> are in GBP.  I create a split transaction in account A like so:
> 
> Memo                Account     Inc.   Dec.
> Some Transaction
>                      Account:B   10.00
>                      Account:C   10.00
>                      Account:A          20.00
> 
> All fine. Because accounts (B,C) and A are in different currencies, 
> there is clearly an implicit conversion. In this case, I set that the 
> conversion should be based on a fixed exchange rate (let's say 1EUR = 
> 0.6GBP for simplicity) rather than a "To amount".
> 
> Now, if I head over to account B and open up the splits of the same 
> transaction, I would expect to see this:
> 
> Memo                Account     Inc.   Dec.
> Some Transaction
>                      Account:B   6.00
>                      Account:C   6.00
>                      Account:A          12.00
> 
> Instead I see:
> 
> Memo                Account     Inc.   Dec.
> Some Transaction
>                      Account:B
>                      Account:C
>                      Account:A
> 
> All the values are missing! Same in account C. Worse, this isn't just a 
> display bug - the line total for that transaction is zero in accounts B 
> & C, making the totals wrong. In other words, the money has just 
> "disappeared".
> 
> Very odd. Has anyone else seen this?
> 
> I haven't reproduced this on a clean set of accounts but it is happening 
> reproducibly when I enter new transactions into my existing GnuCash 
> accounts.  Interestingly (and thankfully), previous transactions that I 
> entered with GC 1.x seem to be OK.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Tim
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