Failure to Balance

[Wouter van Marle]

On 7 Mar 07, at 22:31, Michael B. Trausch wrote:

>
>    though, at least in my case, was the first of two transactions made 
> in a
>    foreign currency.  GC somehow figured on making the exchange rate 
> 1:1 for
>    USD:GBP when I created my first GBP account, and when I paid it off 
> with a
>    proper exchange rate was when the imbalance was created.

If the first had been a proper exchange rate as well, your transactions 
wouldn't have balanced anyway as it is very unlikely that both exchange 
rates were exactly the same. In your case the difference was just quite 
large.

For that case you'll need a capital gain/loss balancing transaction or 
so. See manual or older messages about that; I can't remember how it 
goes exactly.

Wouter.