Split Transaction

[falou zaynoun]

So do i need to change some option in gnucash or all this is enabled by default ?

> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:09:33 +0000
> From: mta at umich.edu
> To: sunfish62 at yahoo.com; gnucash-user at gnucash.org; fzaynoun at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Split Transaction
> 
> --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
>