Managing stocks in foreign currencies

[Roman Decker]

Ha, I got it! The problem was that somehow a manual price of EUR 0,- for
WMH snuck its way into the price editor. I deleted the manual price and now
GnuCash correctly uses the automatically retrieved price for WMH (in GBP).
Success at last!

Thanks for all your help you helped me a great deal!

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> schrieb am So., 16. Okt. 2016 um 19:15 Uhr:

>
> > On Oct 16, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Roman Decker <roman.decker at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I wasn't using trading accounts - didn't know I had to enable that - I
> know enabled it; still no success however.
> >
> > I've had this stock since before I started using GnuCash so I've set the
> initial amount up by creating an equity account "Equity:Opening
> Balances:GBP" denoted in GBP and entering the opening balance with that.
> Maybe that's the problem?
> >
>
> Trading accounts aren't required, I asked only because GnuCash works a
> little bit differently when they're enabled and I want to replicate what
> you're doing. Toggling them doesn't have a retroactive effect, so turning
> them on won't have done anything for this case.
>
> Is there a price for WMH in the price editor? Your illustration shows a
> category for Eurex, but I expect that has prices for whatever's in
> Stocks-EUR. Not sure if it matters, but what are the account types of
> Stocks and Stocks:Stocks-GBP?
>
> I've set up the following tree in a new account file with trading accounts
> turned off:
> Assets:Investiments:Brokerage (Type Asset, EUR)
> Assets:Investments:Stocks-GBP (Type: Asset, GBP)
> Assets:Investments:Stocks-GBP:WMH (Type Stock, WMH)
>
> I started off with WMH being an Asset account so that I could create the
> opening balance of £100 (no opening balances are allowed when creating a
> stock account), saved it, then edited it and changed the type to Stock. The
> account then showed 100 WMH, so I opened it and edited the opening balance
> transaction so that it was 10 shares priced at £10 for £100 Debit. That
> edit created a price shown in the price editor. The value on the Accounts
> page wasn't carried up to the Brokerage total, just as in your case, until
> I created a GBP->EUR price; once I did that it was carried up.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>