That old chestnut - multi currency

[Mike Alexander]

--On September 21, 2009 1:59:29 AM -0600 ehrbar 
<ehrbar at lists.econ.utah.edu> wrote:

>
> I'd like to weigh in too, that I'd love to see
> Peter Selinger's suggestions implemented.
>

Some time ago I implemented many of Peter Selinger's suggestions in 
Gnucash.  Since these changes were not considered acceptable and 
probably won't ever be made part of the standard version of Gnucash I 
decided to make them available as a patch.  Bug 537476, 
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537476>, describes the 
changes I made and contains the patch to implement them.  I just 
updated the patch to work with version 2.3.5 of Gnucash.  In addition 
to working with the newer version, it also changes things so that the 
trading accounts created are a new account type instead of pretending 
to be income accounts.  See the note attached to the new patch for more 
information.

Please note that trading accounts are entirely optional.  Be default 
the patched version of Gnucash won't create them.  Only if you turn on 
the new option I added will they be created.

If you're willing to build Gnucash from source, this patch would let 
you experiment with trading accounts and see how they work for you.  If 
anyone else has tried the patch, I'd love to hear about your 
experiences with it.  I've been using trading accounts for a couple of 
years now and haven't found any big problems.

I haven't been very good about keeping the patch up to date, but if 
there's interest in it I'll try to do better in the future.

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