Foreign currency invoice

[Derek Atkins]

"Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net> writes:

> On Tuesday 06 July 2010 16:25:34 Wojciech Piekutowski wrote:
>> On 6 July 2010 16:32, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 06 July 2010 12:05:50 Wojciech Piekutowski wrote:
>> >
>> > I don't use multi-currency, but IIRC you must have the A/R account in the
>> > customer's currency, I guess for you that means that you need
>> > A/R:PLN and A/R:EUR, and you post carefully!
>>
>> Thank you for a prompt response. I've tried A/R:EUR setup, and yes,
>> posted invoice looks fine now. But still we have one main bank account
>> in PLN and customer pays directly there. When I add a payment it'll
>> happily accept all the values but still there are no amounts in the
>> Bank account transaction and gnucash isn't asking for an exchange
>> rate.
>>
>
> Ah, right.
>
> You may need to have a temporary asset account that is in EUR - you pay into 
> this, and then do the transfer and currency conversion into your bank.
>
> Not sure, never done it, just aware of this from other posts on this sort of 
> subject.  Derek is probably the best chap to confirm on the details!

Currently I believe this is the way to do it, yes.

> HTH,
> Maf.

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