Split Transaction

[David T.]

My apologies for misinformation! 

David

--- On Mon, 2/21/11, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:

> From: Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu>
> Subject: Re: Split Transaction
> To: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>, "Gnucash" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>, "falou zaynoun" <fzaynoun at hotmail.com>
> Date: Monday, February 21, 2011, 1:09 PM
> --On February 21, 2011 10:05:59 AM
> -0800 "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I am pretty certain that you cannot have multiple
> currencies in a
> > single transaction. Your splits have to be one
> currency.
> 
> You may have multiple currencies in one transaction. 
> Each transaction has a base currency and each split in that
> transaction has a commodity (which may be a currency, often
> the same currency as the transaction's currency), an amount
> (which is the number of units in the split's commodity), and
> a value (which is the value in the transaction's currency).
> 
> The values of the splits in a transaction must sum to
> zero.  If you turn on the trading account feature then
> the amounts in the splits must sum to zero in each commodity
> used in any split.  If all the splits are in the
> transaction currency these two conditions are equivalent and
> in each split the amount and value are the same.
> 
> The most common use of multiple commodity transactions is
> when you are buying or selling one commodity (a stock, a
> currency, etc.) in another currency.  However it should
> be possible to construct much more complex transactions if
> that is useful.
> 
>      Mike
> 
>