report in other then base currency - exchange rate going wild

Edward Doolittle edward.doolittle at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 15:43:13 EST 2016


You might check whether your reports are using "nearest in time" for
prices. If not, try it.

On 15 November 2016 at 00:22, __ <tereque at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi I use Gnucash on a W7 with american localization. But my accounts
> are mainly in CNY and I need reports (profit and loss is something I
> am start using now)
>
> what I have noted is that once I put the report currency to CNY the
> exchange rate used (for the report) is far off. I my case its 1:10.85
> (while it actually is ~1:6.6).
> how would you approach this issue ideally? From my perspective the
> easiest would be to just define a rate for the report but that does
> not seem to exist.
>
> When I look at the price editor I see some strange prices (but can not
> actually locate the source of those. Is it save to just delete those
> and see how the effect on a report is?
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