Transactions involving different currencies

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 22, 2016, at 6:42 AM, rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> John Ralls-2 wrote
>> Yeah, you missed the part about needing to enter the CHF amount, exchange
>> rate, and EUR value in the Sparkonto split. You have to enter that split
>> as
>>           Account   | Shares | Price                       | Tot Buy |
>> Tot Sell
>> 	...Sparkonto | 10505  | 10505/(9935.42+49.68+14.90) |         |
>> 9935.42+49.68+14.90
>> GnuCash will do the arithmetic for you when you leave each cell so it
>> won't look like that when you finish.
> 
> Thanks again for your explanation.  The screenshots came from the account
> view of the security.  In this view I cannot set focus in the "Sparkonto"
> line in either the Shares or the Price column.  I have tried to tab into the
> fields as well as clicking in them. The only accessible fields to the right
> of the account name in the Sparkonto line are Buy and Sell (which, BTW, is
> what I would expect for a savings account, which has neither shares nor a
> share price).  If I look at the transaction in the account view of the
> Sparkonto, I don't even see columns for Shares and Price (which also seems
> logical to me).  In which view should I try to enter the formulae that you
> suggest above?

That's interesting. What account type is Sparkonto?

In the Sparkonto register you should be able to use Edit Exchange Rate from the split's context menu to set either a price or an amount. Pay close attention to the direction of the exchange indicated in the dialog box.

Regards,
John Ralls