Fw: Re: Fw: Re: Finance::Quote ??

Georg Stapper georgstapper at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 25 03:26:40 EST 2009


Another strange behaviour comes up if I use "Weighted Average" as price source. In this case the transactions for EUR and GBP are zero even if all exchange rates are explicitly given.

I discovered in general very strange behaviour with the "Weighted Average" option.


--- On Sun, 25/1/09, Georg Stapper <georgstapper at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Georg Stapper <georgstapper at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Fw: Re: Finance::Quote ??
> To: "Frank H. Ellenberger" <f.ellenberger at online.de>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Sunday, 25 January, 2009, 7:51 AM
> 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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