Three trading accounts in one transaction

[Mike Alexander]

--On August 4, 2014 at 7:10:12 PM +0200 Anton Lindström 
<anton at antonanton.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion, I think it would work. I do wish I didn't
> need to do that extra step where I buy currency separately. I still
> want the commission in the same transaction as the stock purchase
> (for the report to know it's a commission) so I would have to
> calculate what the commission would be in CAD. In any case it would
> be a bit more manual work.

I don't think you need to use multiple transactions.  If you are 
careful to set the correct exchange rate or price for all splits that 
are not in the transaction's currency then it should work ok.

> I was using Gnucash 2.4 before and in that version this type of
> transaction was accepted, but after I upgraded to 2.6 this and many
> other transactions have become "unbalanced", and I can't seem to find
> any way to correct them (except taking the transactions apart like
> you suggest).

Version 2.4 didn't detect certain unbalanced transactions that 2.6 
rejects.  I suspect that if you look at one of the transactions like 
this that you entered in 2.4 you'll see that 2.6 thinks it is 
unbalanced.  There is a discussion of this change in bug 732058.  See 
comment 20, <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732058#c20>, 
for details of what constitutes a balanced transaction.

             Mike