Basic information screen

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 26, 2015, at 1:34 AM, Curlyfoo <curlyfoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your help, John. I don't need Gnucash to do any conversions as this account only has £s in and £s out. No foreign currency is used. I may try changing the base currency which is set as NZ $ to sterling when in UK and reverting to NZ $ when in New Zealand. Would that work?
> Thanks 
> 

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You can’t change the base currency, you can only change the default currency and that only operates when you’re creating a new account: The account editor presents it as the default currency, which as you know you can override. Neither should have an affect on what the transaction commodity is, and that along with the split commodity (derived from the account the split affects) is what determines whether an exchange rate is required.

Accounts don’t have £s in and £s out. Accounts have a commodity (of which currency is a special type). Do you think that you’re getting the Transfer Dialog when you’re creating transactions solely between two GBP accounts?

Regards,
John Ralls