Trading Accounts

[Les]

I have previously noted (about 2-3 years ago) a problem with multiple
currencies.  Since I am based in the US, my default currency is the
USD.  However, I have a foreign bank account denominated in that
country's currency.  Within that bank account I also have 2 other
currencies.  The problem is that those 2 currencies instead of
referencing that basic currency, reference the USD.  The result is the
foreign bank account's  total value is not properly calculated.

Les


On 12/05/2016 06:32 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Once again, in going over the Multiple Currencies chapter, I came across the note that trading accounts can be used for this, with a reference to a tutorial by Peter Selinger from around 2010, which predates significant development in GnuCash on trading accounts. Further searching online shows minimal further information about trading accounts as implemented in GnuCash. There is a very sketchy wiki page, and a couple of questioning threads from several years back, as well as a bugzilla bug (Bug 635386), which is the source of the note in the current documentation.
>
> Does anyone have good information about the trading accounts features, how they work in GnuCash, and how they can or should be implemented in a GnuCash file? I think it would be best to have these features explained in the chapter.
>
> Thanks,
> David
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