Bills in foreign currency and Trading accounts

[Robin Proctor]

I did indeed submit a question on this previously, but nothing
appeared in the forum that I see. So I tried again with a shorter
version.

I shall try the bug report route as you suggest, thanks.

Robin Proctor

On 8 February 2014 05:10, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:
> --On February 7, 2014 3:53:06 PM +0000 Robin Proctor
> <robinguyproctor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Using GnuCash 2.6.1 on my GBP accounts I can record a Bill in USD
>> using an A/Payable account I set up in USD. The Trading screen
>> (Transfer Funds) allows me to specify a GBP/USD transfer rate, and an
>> appropriate GBP value is assigned to the Expense account.
>>
>> When I later try to pay the Bill from my GBP bank account, the Trading
>> screen treats the USD value of the Bill as though it were GBP, leading
>> to an erroneous conversion value for the payment.
>>
>> Do I misunderstand Trading Accounts, or am I not performing the
>> recording or payment process correctly?
>
>
> Isn't this the same thing you asked about a couple of days ago?  There may
> be a bug here having to do with prompts for exchange rates, but I don't
> think it has anything to do with trading accounts.  They are not involved at
> that level.  I would suggest that you file a bug report regarding this so
> someone can take a look at it when they have time.
>
>         Mike
>