Odd behaviour in multicurrency txns

[Adam Funk]

On 2013-07-19, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Fred,

>> A week ago I used a credit card to make a payment in EUR. When the 
>> statement arrived this morning it showed that EUR34.80 had been charged 
>> as GBP29.95 (1:1.1619) but the company is now levying a "non-Sterling 
>> transaction fee" which in this case was GBP0.82.
> [snip]
>
> Do you really need to account for the expenses in EUR?
>
> What I do when I travel is record the foreign currency in the
> transaction description, but I keep all my accounts in my own currency
> (USD).  My Credit Card is going to do the conversion for me, so really
> I see no need to add a Dining expense in every currency of every country
> I visit.
>
> I would recommend you do the same, unless you have a real good
> (i.e. legal) reason to record in the foreign currency.

I agree for the most part, although I do have credit cards in two
currencies & account for literal cash in several.