Question about multiple currencies

[Charles Day]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com>wrote:
>
>> On 15 October 2008 at 20:52, Charles Day said:
>>
>> [...]
>> > I have committed a fix for the reports in r17627. It may or may not make
>> a
>> > difference in your case. If you want to try it out, you can find the
>> patch
>> > here: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/17627
>> >
>> > You would just need to apply the patch to your installed copy of
>> > commodity-utilities.scm (make a copy first) and restart GnuCash.
>>
>> Dunno about the OP, but it fixed my fictitious imbalance (and the equally
>> fictitious "unrealised gains" that went with it). Thanks.
>>
>>
> Yes, he replied to me privately that the imbalance is gone. However I would
> warn that, unless realized currency gains have been recorded, you will still
> go out of balance if you take an foreign-currency account balance to zero.
> All the gains are still in GnuCash as unrealized gains. You should be able
> to see those unrealized currency gains in your balance sheet if you run with
> a 'most recent' price source; the problem is that some of those unrealized
> gains are actually unrecorded realized gains.
>

I still think there is a bug somewhere though - his books balance but the
exchange rates look suspect. Fred, do you use income or expense accounts
denominated in foreign currencies?


> Cheers,
> Charles
>