Capital equipment showing zero value

[Henry Gomersall]

I'm currently using Gnucash to keep the accounts for my (currently
small) startup.

I recently purchased some equipment from the US, for which I entered a
bill in USD attached to the vendor, with the transfer from
Assets->Capital Equipment.

Now I've (finally) managed to get the bill paid with the correct amounts
in all of the currencies (see note below*), and the capital equipment
register account contains the equipment, it just has zero value
associated with it, which is not what I want. Should I have added this
as an expense somewhere?

Thanks,
Henry Gomersall

*An additional point is the paying of foreign currency invoices. Its not
clear when prompted with the bill payment window what currency the
number you're typing in should be in. It would be helpful to have this
clarified within in the window.