multi currencies
Frank H. Ellenberger
f.ellenberger at online.de
Tue Dec 6 12:33:47 EST 2011
Hello Kevin,
I am very sorry nobody answered before.
Am Dienstag, 8. November 2011 um 20:41:36 schrieb Kevin Liddle:
> 1. I am base in Zimbabwe so my locale currency has been set at ZWL
> but we are actually now working in USD. The problem that I can foresee is
> that my balance sheet does not total up the assets, etc. properly as it
> gives 0 balances on the ZWL.
Here you are missing the exchange rate, but at first you should read the
chapter in the user guide:
http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/chapter_currency.html .
You might find other useful information at
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash#Documentation .
> a. How do I go about changing my locale currency so that everything
> gets summarised nicely?
Adjust
Edit->Preferences->Accounts->Default Currency and
Reports->Default Report Currency
> 2. I have some investments in ZAR. I see it is possible to record
> this value in ZAR but is it possible to ensure that this gets rolled up
> into the overall balance sheet at the exchange rate at the time?
Then you must configure Finance::Quote to fetch them, see
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_quote
HTH
Frank
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