Question about multiple currencies

[Derek Atkins]

I have one major issue with Peter's page -- he conflated Realized and
Unrealized gains/losses and never really talks about the difference
between them and when/how you should compute/account for one vs the
other.  But I agree that the rest of his document is spot on, but this
one issues is IMHO a major flaw in his thesis.

-derek

John M Collins <jmc at xisl.com> writes:

> Yes indeed - I think that Peter Selinger's page is exactly on point.
>
> On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 00:37 -0400, Mike Alexander wrote:
>
>> --On October 15, 2008 3:38:02 PM +0100 John M Collins <jmc at xisl.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> > Further to my previous message of this morning I tried deleting all
>> > the "offending" transactions and then when I run "trial balance" I
>> > get this at the bottom of it:
>> >
>> > Unrealized Gains
>> >                        £
>> >
>> >
>> >                       £
>> >              £919,651.64
>> >
>> > Any idea what is going on?
>> >
>> > And how do I "repair" the accounts?
>> >
>> > (I did run check and repair all but it made no difference).
>> >
>> > Thanks for any help anyone can give.
>> 
>> You might want to take a look at 
>> <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537476> and 
>> <http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/gnucash.html> to see 
>> if they are related to your problem.
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