what exchange rate gnucash uses for reports - it's not what I entered manually

[David T.]

Actually, the thread you cite is an email message to the list, not a bug. The official repository for GnuCash's reported bugs is Bugzilla (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=GnuCash). In the thread you cite, an answer was provided by one of the developers at the time. Since there was no further response from that user, it must be assumed that the advice fixed his problem. I'll note that the advice given there was to check that the report options for prices was set to "nearest in time", which is the advice provided earlier in this thread; did you try that, and did it fix anything?

A search of Bugzilla for the word "exchange" turned up a number of bugs, but none of them appeared to address any problems with reports.

I have seen circumstances in my own data where exchange rates have not been entered into the price database, thus throwing off account values substantially, but I am not certain whether these omissions are due to a bug in GnuCash, or whether it is an artifact of importing these transactions in from an earlier financial package. I would have to do some testing to see whether this is an issue.


Good luck,
David



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 From: 321654 <krok.geena at gmail.com>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: what exchange rate gnucash uses for reports - it's not what I entered manually
 
Looks like this is a really old bug (Nov 29, 2005) in gnucash :(
http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/exchange-rate-value-for-reports-td1417095.html

If you have any idea how to fix this, please let me know.


On 28 January 2013 22:02, wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, January 28, 2013 2:46 pm, Krokodill Geena wrote:
>>> I have searched here and there but I still can not figure out, where
>>> gnucash gets the exchange rate for the
 reports.
>>> It is obviously not the exchange rate I have entered with Tools>Price
>>> Editor > sect the currency, enter correct exchange rate, save (date is
>>> today)
>>> Guess what, report still show about 10 years old exchange rate. :)
>>> Yes, I have disabled the automatic update and this did not help me at all.
>>>
>>> Because there is now way to add a new currency, I had to use good old
>>> and so dead FIM as a "place holder" to save me from manual conversions
>>> (there is no FIM any more because it was wiped out by EU euphoria back
>>> in 2002)
>>>
>>> Yes, I have disabled the automatic update and this did not help me at all.
>>> I even attempted to use Tools > Price Editor > Remove Old.
>>> Nothing, still that same old rate :(
>>>
>>> Is it
 hardcoded somewhere? Where?
>>
>> Which report?
>
> Same with all the reports
>
> For now, I used Equity Statement For Period Covering 2013-01-01 to 2013-12-31
> 2013-01-01 is wrong
> 2013-12-31 is also wrong
>
> I made a custom report with a currency price chart, selected price
> database as the source.
> Chart shows correct exchange rates.
>
>
>> Have you looked in the report options to select your price source?
>> Most likely you will want to change the it to "nearest in time"
>>
>>> Thank you for your help
>>
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>>
>> -derek
>>
>> --
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>>
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