"Average cost" report price source gone wild?

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I have had a similar issue in another thread and got much more useful
results with "Most Recent" / "Nearest in Time"

On 11/19/16, Stefan Soeffing <soeffing at gmx.de> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm trying to find the best way of reporting foreign currencies in my
> balances. For testing I made a very simple example (see gnucash file
> attached):
>
> 1) Move USD 100 from checkings into "Cash EUR" account
> (assuming rate 1.00 => EUR 100)
>
> 2) Move EUR 99.9 from "Cash EUR" to Expense account
> (exchange rate 0.9 => ~USD 110)
>
> Now creating the balance report: With price source "average cost"
> selected, the exchange rate is calculated to EUR 1 = USD 999 ?!
>
> For "average cost" I had expected simpy EUR 1 = USD 1 in this example -
> is this a bug or is my understanding terribly wrong here?
>
> Thanks a lot!
> - Stefan
>
>
>
> PS: I tried to post this via the gmane newsgroup but it didn't seem to
> get through. If it should go through later on I apologize for double
> posting...
>