Assign Currency to Account; was: Foreign Currency Exchange

Tim Troutman timatroutman at gmail.com
Mon Jun 14 18:37:21 EDT 2010


Frank,

Yes!  That was it.  Thank you so much that solves all my problems.

-- 
Tim Troutman
Philippine Aid Society   www.philippineaid.org
Twitter: PASociety

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger <
f.ellenberger at online.de> wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
>  Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>  You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>
> I assume you are starting your transaction in the general ledger, which is
> not
> recommend as it in particular is not secure for multicurrency transactions.
> The GL assumes your base currency (USD) for all transactions you start from
> there. [https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106873]
>
> Instead you should open one of your PHP accounts and then enter the
> transaction.
>
> And you should use at least GnuCash 2.2.7, where some currency bugfixing
> happened.
>
> HTH
> Frank
>
> Am Montag, 14. Juni 2010 um 02:53:56 schrieb Tim Troutman:
> > Mr. Ellenberger,
> >
> > Thanks for contacting me.  I've been tied up for a while so haven't had
> the
> > opportunity to work on it.  I do have the account marked as you explained
> > but that does not work.    I had the account hierarchy set up as :
> >
> > Income (USD) >> USIncome  (USD)
> >
> >                       >> Philippines Income (PHP)
> >
> > Same thing with bank accounts.  Every time I enter any amount to any
> > account it assumes that I'm entering USD.  If the account is selected as
> > PHP then it tries to convert (USD into PHP) when really it should be
> doing
> > the opposite. I want to enter PHP and see a summary in USD of my funds in
> > both places.
> >
> > I tried to make new accounts without the hierarchy in case that was
> causing
> > the problem.  So my new setup>
> >
> > RP Income (PHP)
> > RP Bank (PHP)
> >
> > Then I make a transaction only involving those two accounts which are
> both
> > marked as PHP and it still assumes that I'm entering USD and tries to
> > convert it.  I don't what to do.  Any ideas?  Thanks.
> >
> > - Tim
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger <
> >
> > f.ellenberger at online.de> wrote:
> > > Hi Tim,
> > >
> > > Am Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2010 um 06:21:17 schrieb TimTroutman:
> > > > How can I get it to understand that I'm entering PHP (peso) instead
> of
> > >
> > > USD
> > >
> > > > for a particular account?
> > >
> > > On the account page
> > >        mark that account,
> > >        edit_account [ctrl+E]
> > >                Security/currency Select
> > >                        Type Currency
> > >                        Currency: PHP
> > >                        OK
> > >                OK
> > >
> > > HTH
> > > Frank
>
>
>


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