Gold as Commodity?

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Tue Jan 24 09:56:25 EST 2017


> On Jan 23, 2017, at 8:26 PM, Plutocrat <plutocrat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> John Ralls wrote on Tuesday, 24 January, 2017 12:09 PM:
>> Might work for the OP, won't work for GnuCash. Only ISO-4217 currencies can be currencies in GnuCash, everything else is a commodity. 
> 
> Not trying to contradict you here, but according to Wikipedia, ISO 4217 does include gold (XAU)?
> 
> 	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217
> 
> Bitcoin (XBT) hasn't been approved yet, but is under consideration. 

Sorry, you're right. XAU is a legit currency and it's included in GnuCash's iso-4217-currencies.xml, so it will indeed work in GnuCash.

Regards,
John Ralls



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