Balance sheet report: time stamp & closing FXR rates

[Jannick Asmus]

Charles told me that the time stamp of a balance sheet report was noon 
(12:00 AM) in GnuCash such that GnuCash might not pick the closing rates 
at balance sheet date.

If multiple FXRs (@ balance sheet date) are stored in the price 
database, "nearest in time" might produce incorrect results since it can 
happen that GnuCash does not pick the "last" rate of the day (e.g. if 
there are entries at the times 12:00 and 23:00, then I suspect the 12:00 
entry is used).

Running the balance sheet report with "last" instead of "nearest in 
time" might not produce results on the basis of the rate latest at 
balance sheet date either (e.g. if FXRs after the balance sheet date are 
stored).

If the time stamp of the balance sheet report was changed to 11:59 PM, 
balance sheet reports with "nearest in time" would produce correct 
results using the latest rates of the day I think. This should guarantee 
that closing balances are calculated with closing rates (using "nearest 
in time").

I am not sure where the one of the attributes bid, ask, last, net asset 
value, unknown of the entries comes in into the balance sheet calculations.

Charles proposed in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541970 to 
ask for opinions on this topic here in the list.


Thanx.

-- 
Best wishes,
J.

GC v2.2.5/WinXP