understanding currency exchange...

[Cheryl Wheeler]

Someone more knowledgeable, please correct me if this is not relevant, 
but:  I assume that the currency of Assets:Holdings:Cash:Euros is Euros; 
what is the currency of the higher-level accounts, Assets, 
Assets:Holdings, and Assets:Holdings:Cash? If not Euros, then maybe that 
is the issue. It's my understanding that a top-level account and all of 
its sub-accounts should be in the same currency. Personally, I handle 
this with top-level accounts named "Assets Currency1" and "Assets 
Currency2", and duplicate the sub-accounts as needed. Transfers between 
them work well for me.

   Cheryl

On 2015-11-11 12:39 AM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:30:21 -0800
From: Joshua Chambers<chambers.joshua at gmail.com>
To: gnucash-user<gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: understanding currency exchange...
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I am doing EXACTLY what you are saying, there must be some bug or
something!  It even happens automatically as you suggest... I start
entering the simple transaction, one of them is in USD, the other in
EUR, and the currency exchange dialog comes up automatically, I enter
the correct exchange rate and hit okay, and no matter what I do, the
transaction won't balance, and there's a remainder waiting to be
processed, or "Imbalance" if I leave the transaction.