A/R with multiple currencies

[Derek Atkins]

As discussed on IRC
  http://lists.gnucash.org/logs/2007/10/2007-10-05.html#T18:48:10
and
  http://lists.gnucash.org/logs/2007/10/2007-10-06.html#T05:32:40
and
  http://lists.gnucash.org/logs/2007/10/2007-10-06.html#T09:29:15

Yes, you can, provided you set your customer currency properly
before you create your invoice....  The invoice grabs the customer
currency when you select the customer, not when you post the
invoice.  You need to make sure they all match.

-derek

Damian Dimmich <djd20 at kent.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am starting up a small business which deals in both the Euro zone and 
> in the UK.  As such I would like to be able to add invoices and process 
> payments in a Euro based A/R account and a GBP A/R account.  While the 
> GBP A/R account works as expected, the Euro account's balance always 
> reads 0. If I edit an invoice that I posted to the Euro A/R account, it 
> shows the correct subtotal amount.  When it gets posted it just shows 
> the balance to be 0.00 and the Invoice field is empty in the Euro 
> Accounts Receivable view.  My default currency is GBP.
>
> I have tried to recreate the invoice, post it, unpost it and repost it.  
> I set the Transfer to point to a Euro Sales account, which also shows me 
> an empty Income field.
>
> I'm wondering if I am doing something wrong, or if support for foreign 
> currencies does not extend to the Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable 
> business section.
>
> I haven't actually tried out using accounts payable with euros yet.  One 
> solution I can think of is to have separate files for the euro and the 
> gbp aspects of the business.  This isn't quite what I am looking for as 
> transferring money to and from my euro accounts would be a bit fiddly, 
> unless I end up never doing that.
>
> I am using Gnucash 2.2.1 built from r16462 through fink on an Intel mac.
>
> I haven't managed to find anything through googling or looking through 
> recent mail archives.
>
> Any advice or suggestions would be very welcome.
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
> Damian
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>
>

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available