reports without decimals?

[Derek Atkins]

On Fri, August 24, 2012 11:05 am, Anna's unattended mail wrote:
> On 2012-08-24, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>>
>> I don't know if there's an easy way to change that, actually.  It's
>> an artifact of your currency.
>
> You seem to imply that the currency is somehow at fault.  Japanese yen
> is another national currency that only uses whole numbers.  I would
> consider it the job of the tool to accommodate the national currency.

I am implying that.  The currency does have "cents".  Please see David T's
response from 30 minutes before yours for a more detailed answer.  To
sumerize, the currency has historically had cents and therefore GnuCash
must keep them in order for older accounts to balance.  To change this
within GnuCash would require changing the currency within GnuCash, but the
ISO list hasn't been updated yet.

> It's interesting that gnucash doesn't handle it, considering gnucash
> can handle other whole number commodities (e.g. stocks).  Suppose the
> OP creates a "stock" to represent his national currency?  Might be
> worth a try.

It doesn't handle it because the currency does have decimals (at least
historically).  This is not a bug in GnuCash.  Arguably it might be a bug
that GnuCash does not handle *changes* in currency like this.

Yes, you could create a stock type to handle the "new" denomination.

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