foreign currencies are shown as 0.- in default currency reports

Dave H hellvee at gmail.com
Sat Jan 3 05:48:46 EST 2015


.... also did you set the currency correctly on the General tab of each
account - there is a "Security/currency:" field on the account tab which is
set to the relevant currency I have setup in the Price Editor.  This might
not have come across from your existing file either ???

Cheers Dave.


On 3 January 2015 at 20:42, Dave H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> What specific report(s) are you having issues with ?  If I run a
> transaction report and include multiple currency accounts they all show up
> as expected in the various currencies....
>
> Cheers Dave.
>
>
> On 3 January 2015 at 13:15, tereque <tereque at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 1/2/2015 9:18 AM, Dave H wrote:
>>
>>  You may have used Tools >> Price Editor to setup each of your foreign
>> currencies and clicked the "Get Quotes" button at least one to setup the
>> values of the foreign currenices?  That works for me and shows the foreign
>> currencies in only the "Balance (Period)" and "Total" columns on the
>> Accounts tab, all other columns show the equivalent AUD amount.
>>
>> thanks >Tools >Price Editor works in regards to the "Accounts" tab.
>> Forign currency accounts are showing with an equivalent value in my default
>> currency now
>>
>> But my report still shows 0.- for my report currency (which is not my
>> computer's local currency). Normally I only llok at the "report currency
>> (CNY)" but in order to find the cause I played around with the report
>> settings a little. I can display my accounts currencie's value $ or EUR
>> when I choose "Show Foreign Currencies" but it's not being exchanged. the
>> report currency shows a 0.- for those accounts. Also no exchange rate is
>> being shown when I mark 'Show Exchange Rates'. So I guess I need to teach
>> my report to look at the price editors exchange rates (which apparantely
>> the "Accounts" tab is doing successfully). Any idea how to achive that?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  On 2 January 2015 at 10:10, tereque <tereque at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I made a new file by >File >Export >Export Accounts
>>>
>>> I am dealing with 4 currencies in my accounts USD, HKD, EUR, CNY
>>> My computer's locale is US but my default currency (as well as my
>>> default report currency) is CNY.
>>>
>>> In my original file's "Accounts" page and the reports all foreign (not
>>> CNY) currencie's are displayed as the equivalent value in CNY(showing
>>> "present CNY" in the Accounts tab)
>>> Now in my new file all foreign currencie's value's are only shown in the
>>> foreign currency. The CNY values are set to 0.-
>>>
>>> So what I need it that all currencie's values are shown in my default
>>> currencies equivalent in the "Accounts" tab as well asin my reports (which
>>> are all in CNY)
>>> how can I get that working?
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