buying Yen with Dollars

[Tommy Trussell]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Elmar Schmeisser <eschmeisser at nc.rr.com>
wrote:

> It won't do what is shown in
> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/currency_purchase1.html
>
> I keep getting an imbalance of 49,522.05 despite editing the exchange rate.
>
>
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Elmar Schmeisser <eschmeisser at nc.rr.com>
 wrote:

> Hmmm - there must be a magic formula for doing this, i.e. it works in
> only a specific sequence of steps.  Doing the steps out of order results
> in imbalances.  Now, by some random combination of doing the several
> steps, it has managed to fix itself.
>


Have you tried modeling your accounts and entering the transactions as a
commodity purchase (instead of an asset purchase as you linked to)?

http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/currency_invest1.html



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