dealing with two accounts in different currencies

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 23, 2015, at 7:45 AM, Miguel Negrão <miguel.negrao-lists at friendlyvirus.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> On 23-11-2015 15:12, John Ralls wrote:
> 
>>> It seems the price editor is not useful for this as the reports will use
>>> only the latest exchange rate, and will not take into account previous
>>> exchange rates entered into the list. It seems to me that my only option is
>>> to make each transaction of the GBP account into expense accounts which are
>>> in euros, and for each transaction enter the exact exchange rate which is
>>> relative to that transaction. This is quite a bit of work. Is there any
>>> other way ?
>> 
>> Yup. In the report options on the General page change “Price Source” from “Most recent” to “Nearest in time”.
> 
> Oh, great, that is almost what I wanted. To have exactly what I wanted,
> I would need an option such that it would pick the nearest in time but
> only chosing from currency exchange entries preceding that particular
> transaction, so as not to to use exchange rates that are in the future,
> from the point of view of that transaction.

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That’s https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743753.

Regards,
John Ralls