trading account, currency exchange, and cash flow - bug or misunderstanding?

[Mike Alexander]

--On May 12, 2014 9:51:36 PM -0700 gnucash.133518b at telus.net wrote:

> Why does the Money In "Equity:Opening Balances" line show C$150
> instead of either the full C$200 (assuming trading accounts are
> ignored) or C$100 (assuming transfers through trading accounts are
> not ignored)?
>
> Why does the Money In "Trading:CURRENCY:USD Cash" line show C$50
> instead of C$100?
>
> Why doesn't Money Out include a line for "Trading:CURRENCY:CAD Cash"?
>
> I don't understand the asymmetric treatment of trading accounts nor
> the 50% factor. Can someone please explain it to me?

The fix for bug 622778 [1] doesn't handle trading accounts properly. 
I'm not sure right now what "properly" means in this case, but the cash 
flow report is unaware of their existence, which is not right.  I'll 
try to look into this when I get a chance.

            Mike

[1] <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622778>