Multiple currency issues

[Charles Day]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Jannick Asmus <jannick.news at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 09.07.2008 01:09, Charles Day wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:00 AM, Jannick Asmus <jannick.news at gmail.com<mailto:
>> jannick.news at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    2. Income statement
>>
>>    The income statement in USD shows a total revenue of 0, expected is
>>    78, whereas the P&L in EUR is ok.
>>
>>    Q3: Is this because GnuCash expects a foreign exchange rate in the
>>    database to convert USD into EUR?
>>
>>
>> I couldn't reproduce this in trunk. My income statement shows total
>> revenue of 78 if you run with USD, or total revenue of 49.62 if you run with
>> EUR. This worked with price sources "Average Cost" or "Weighted Average". If
>> you chose a "Most Recent" or "Nearest in time" then I think you need some
>> quotes in the Price Editor.
>>
>
> You are right. Can confirm results run with "Weighted Average". But it
> seems to me that the zero results are calculated because the price-db does
> not contain a conversion rate for EUR -> USD, whereas there are price-db
> entries for USD -> EUR.
>
> Is it intended that the conversion direction in the price-db cannot be
> reversed?
>

I don't know if that's the way it is intended to work, but that's apparently
what is happening. There's no EUR->USD exchange rate, so zero is used and
your 49.62  EUR income is converted to $0.  I can reproduce this.

J.
>
>
-Charles