Stocks, advanced portfolio and multi-currency

[David Carlson]

On 10/30/2015 8:34 PM, Wm... wrote:
> Mon, 26 Oct 2015 11:48:22 <1445885302529-4681175.post at n4.nabble.com>
> giulc <giuliocv at ymail.com> wrote...
>
>> Thanks sunfish62.
>> Indeed I am using the last version, which is 2.6.9. The OS is 
>> Linux/Xubuntu.
>> I have tried to reproduce the example in section 10.4.2 "Purchasing 
>> foreign
>> stocks" of the Gnucash tutorial and concepts guide, and it works 
>> except for
>> that point, i.e. the currency exchange rate used for both "Basis" and
>> "Value" columns seems to be today's one, instead for "Basis" I think it
>> should be the one used in the day of the transaction/buy.
>> As a check I've observed the following: if I manually change today's
>> currency rate, from e.g. AUD to EUR, in the "CURRENCY" tree of the price
>> editor, both values of the report do change (which to me seems 
>> wrong). On
>> the contrary, if I manually change today's value of the stock in the 
>> price
>> editor --> "FUND" --> whatever is the brokerage account.. only the 
>> "Value"
>> column changes, but not the "Basis" (which looks correct).
>> The brokerage account is properly set, i.e. in the currency of the stock
>> (say, AUD), while my base accounts are in EUR. So I don't think my 
>> issue is
>> the same of that of Stefano.
>> Thanks in advance,
>> G.
>
> Did you specifically and separately transfer some EUR to AUD and 
> *then* use the AUD to buy the AUD priced stock?
>
> Is the stock actually priced in the currency you used to buy it? Some 
> stocks are traded in currencies different to the "home" currency of 
> the exchange they are traded on (e.g. a USD denominated stock on the LSE)
>
> To try and isolate if it is the report or the way you have entered / 
> set up things do you get the correct figures if you look at balance 
> sheets at basis date and today making sure you use "Nearest in time"?
>
> Also, do you use Trading Accounts or not?
>

giulc,

One more silly question.  In the report options, is the General > Price 
Source set to Nearest in Time, not Most Recent?

David C