transfer funds currency gain(loss)

[Mike Alexander]

--On November 7, 2007 8:57:19 AM -0500 Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> 
wrote:

> Carl <ct at turner.ca> writes:
>
>> (1) US$ funds (payments from invoices) are deposited into my US$
>> account.
>>
>> (2) Periodically amounts are transferred from the US$ account to my
>> CAN$ checking account. I used the transfer funds dialog to do this.
>>
>> Where is the currency gain(loss) recorded?
>
> You need to manually add them as splits to the transaction.  You
> cannot do that from the transfer dialog, and gnucash currently wont
> add them for you automatically.

See <http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html> and 
<http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/gnucash.html> for 
another way to handle multiple currencies.  I have a set of changes to 
make Gnucash do this more or less automatically, but they aren't in the 
official version.  You can also create the necessary splits manually.

-- 
Mike Alexander           mta at umich.edu
Ann Arbor, MI            PGP key ID: BEA343A6