Zambian kwacha; was: reports without decimals?

Frank H. Ellenberger frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 16:49:38 EDT 2012


Hi Martin,

for some reason I didn't see your previous post.

Am 19.08.2012 17:21, schrieb Francois de Ryckel:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying my chance again (
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2012-April/044517.html)

:
>> My currency is the Zambian Kwacha.
:

Because in 1968 the ngwee was in use, we can not drop it from our table
because then your old entries would be falsified (rounded).

I just found
http://www.postzambia.com/post-read_article.php?articleId=24772 -
Government removes three zeros from currency
> "For example, K1, 000 will be K1, K5,000 will become K5, K10,000 will become K10, K20,000 will become K20 and K50,000 will become K50,"
> Chikwanda announced at a media briefing in Lusaka yesterday.
> "In addition, the Bank of Zambia will also reintroduce coins for lower value denominations.

If your government succeds the decimals will be in use again. But
ususally there will be a change in the symbol like the russian 1:1000
cut from RUR -> RUB.

Can you watch the developement and file a bug report at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
component:"Currency and Commodity" when the new symbol instead of ZMK is
official.

TIA

:
>> All the accounts and sub-accounts have "smallest fractions =1".

Yes, this is the right approach, but ...

>> I did not find any things I could change in the "options" of the reports.
:

I didn't test it, but it could relate to
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408444 - "Smallest fraction"
disregarded

sorry

> Does anyone know how to tweak the options when generating any kind of
> reports so that we don't have the double decimal displayed for every
> accounts.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Martin.

Frank




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