FX Rates

[Mike Alexander]

--On January 21, 2009 3:48:40 PM +0000 Ken <kmailuk at googlemail.com> 
wrote:

> Hi all.  GnuCash seems to be picky about how FX rates are entered.
> For instance, I set up a very simple test file with one transaction in
> GBP. I requested my reporting currency to be XAU.  I entered an
> exchange rate for XAU in GBP (about 600 GBP = 1 XAU). The "Accounts"
> page shows XAU 0.0000 for the total even though the account has -£25.
>
> If, however, I enter an FX rate for GBP in XAU (1/600) the Total is
> shown correctly.  Why doesn't GnuCash figure this out itself and
> calculate the appropriate reciprocal?
>
> Kind regards,
> Ken

I fixed this bug ages ago.  I thought I had submitted the patch, but I 
couldn't find it.  It's on 
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568945> now.  Gnucash needs 
to look for the reciprocal of the exchange rate it needs if it can't 
find the one it's looking for.

-- 
Mike Alexander           mta at umich.edu
Ann Arbor, MI            PGP key ID: BEA343A6