Multiple Currencies

[Martin Roennebeck]

Mike,

sorry, I figured out what was wrong. Another case where the problem  
was in front of the screen... ;-) (and one more coffee I owe the  
developers)

For some strange reason I must have touched the settings of the FX  
Trading account, maybe not, but as a result it had as type <nothing> .  
I just changed the type to FX Trading account and then it appeared  
beautifully in the reports.

However, another problem came up. The last hours I was busy to find a  
way to find certain transactions that used NOT the FX Trading account.  
(Reason: I started using this feature after I had already some  
transactions in the system...). These transactions gave me some  
differences. I found them after a while, but it would have been much  
easier, if there would be any filter to select all accounts from one  
currency, e.g. in the balance sheet report. Any idea? To select them  
manually is cumbersome and one easily makes mistakes....

Martin



> --On November 28, 2010 2:34:47 PM +0100 Martin Roennebeck  
> <martin.roennebeck at web.de> wrote:
>
>> 2) Year end closing
>> The currency trading accounts can not be picked for balance or p&l
>> reports (at least I haven't found a way, where you can do this). So
>> if you run your balances over all accounts, they won't balance.
>> However, the difference is exactly the balance of the currency
>> trading accounts. This acceptable during the year, but for year end
>> reporting I am still testing, which posting needs to be done to
>> transfer this not realised gain/loss into equity. If anyone knows the
>> correct posting, please let me know. (careful: it is not just a
>> simple transfer of the open amount in home currency, the p&l of
>> exchange rate movements after year end still need to be fully
>> reflected in the currency trading accounts)
>
> The balance sheet report (both the old and the EGuile version)  
> includes trading accounts in the calculation, at least in the 2.3.17  
> version (and previous 2.3 versions).  What balance report are you  
> looking at that doesn't include them?
>
> The Profit and Loss (aka Income Statement) report does ignore them  
> and probably shouldn't.  I'm not sure whether they should be  
> included by default.  Probably so, but maybe not.  Unfortunately,  
> fixing this would break the string freeze so it will have to wait  
> until after 2.4 is released.
>
>         Mike
>
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