Fw: Re: Finance::Quote ??

[Georg Stapper]

Sorry, I forgot to attach the pdf.

You are absolutely right: I do not need new quotes for the inverse exchange rates, if I do not care about bit-ask-spreads. However, GnuCash does not automatically calculate the inverse rate. As you can see I have to key in the inverse rate for EUR/ZAR explicitly in the price editor, otherwise the transaction value is zero. In the given case GnuCash works properly for GBP, but not for EUR. 

Georg


--- On Sat, 24/1/09, Frank H. Ellenberger <f.ellenberger at online.de> wrote:

> From: Frank H. Ellenberger <f.ellenberger at online.de>
> Subject: Re: Fw: Re: Finance::Quote ??
> To: georgstapper at yahoo.com
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Saturday, 24 January, 2009, 10:38 PM
> Hi,
> 
> Am Saturday 24 January 2009 22:27:06 schrieb Georg Stapper:
> :
> > The base currency is EUR.
> >
> > If I choose EUR as the report currency, then 2
> exchange rates (EUR/GBP and
> > EUR/ZAR) are sufficient to produce the correct results
> (see attached pdf).
> > However, if I choose ZAR as the report currency I need
> also the the ZAR/EUR
> > exchange rate otherwise the income and expenses in EUR
> are not calculated.
> 
> I /believe/ now to understand your problem and assume you
> are hit by 
> <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568945> as
> entioned by  
> Mike Alexander in the FX Rates thread 
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2009-January/028315.html.
> 
> 
> > Hence it makes a lot of sense, if "Get
> Quotes" actually pulls all the
> > different exchange rates necessary for the report.
> >
> > For all three currencies the "Get Online
> Quote" flag is set.
> 
> No, against which currency should a base currency be
> quoted?
> From a mathematical POV there is only the need, to have the
> rate of your 
> foreign commodities in your base currency, The other
> direction should be 
> calculated: first map them all from foreign to base
> currency and from there 
> to report currency. unless there were this bug.
> 
> Frank


      
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