problematic one-ended transaction

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

Sorry if this is a duplicate; I think I misposted.

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 
at 12:55:48PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Check the account currencies.  Are they different?

Yes.

> How did you enter this transaction?

I don't know.  It was a long time ago.  I suspect I entered it on the 
credit cart register.

> You might need to create the Exchange Rate for this transaction.

Probably.  How do I do this now that it's been entered and reconciled on 
one end, and completely wrong on the other?

> 
> -derek

-- hendrik
> 
> Quoting hendrik at topoi.pooq.com:
> 
> >I paid a bill of US$182.90 on my visa card on 2007 07 31.
> >My visa card is denominated in Canadian dollars, and so it was charged
> >CDN$199.72
> >
> >On my visa register, the transaction appears with two splits:
> >
> >Liabilities:Accounts Payable:Subscriptions:Annual Reviews   199.72
> >Liabilities:Accounts Payable:Credit Card:Scotiabank                  199.72
> >
> >But when I menu-click on the first split and select "jump" I get to the
> >Annual Reviews account, where the transaction is listed as
> >
> >Liabilities:Accounts Payable:Subscriptions:Annual Reviews
> >Liabilities:Accounts Payable:Credit Card:Scotiabank
> >
> >The amounts are missing.  Presumably they should be present, and each 
> >equal to $182.90.
> >
> >How can I fix this?  I'm running the Debian package for Gnucash 2.2.4 
> >on a 32-bit lenny
> >system, but I occasionally edit the accounts on an 64-bit etch system 
> >with its gnucash
> >2.0.5-1.
> >
> >-- hendrik
> >
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