Split Transaction
falou zaynoun
fzaynoun at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 22 06:00:08 EST 2011
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
>
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