Failure to balance with multiple currencies

[Mike Alexander]

--On October 19, 2009 10:15:00 AM +0100 John M Collins <jmc at xisl.com> 
wrote:

> I had this problem a year ago with GNUcash and Derek Atkins gave me a
> patch to "commodity-utilities.scm" but it doesn't seem to have been
> fixed in 2.2.9 or in 2.3.6. I hesitate to put that module into the
> newer versions.
>
> I have our set of accounts mostly in GBP but with some invoices and
> A/R in USD and a very small amount in Euros.
>
> When we get a USD or Euro payment I've put the payment in and done a
> transfer in whatever amount of GBP the bank gave us.
>
> But it's made the trial balance go adrift by a significant amount.
>
> Please can someone advise how to sort this out as we are doing
> accounts for the last financial year (which ended on 30th September)
> and the accountant is making a lot of rude noises!

This has been discussed on this list before, most recently in the 
thread starting with 
<https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2009-September/031546.html>. 
I'm on vacation now, but when I get back I plan to produce another 
version of the patches mentioned in that thread which hopefully will be 
applied to the official version of GnuCash.

             Mike