Inability to correct GBP value for Euro priced shares

[Fred Bone]

On 9 June 2017 at 12:54, Eric Coates said:

> Fred
> 
> In my original post I included the following "89(the number of 
> shares)*€73.07(the value of each share)*0.87(the Euro to GBP exchange
> rate) ie £5658" and compared that with the value £3989 as reported in
> the account listing. At that time I had "many" values in the price
> database for both the Euro/pound and AIR.PA valuations.
> 
> I have just deleted all old values in both for Euro/pound and AIR.PA and
> the valuation in the account listing changed - and is consistent with a
> manual calculation of the value.
> 
> Problem solved! Well done, that man!
> 
> But other questions arise:
> 
> (A) Why does the existence old prices stop gnuCash from using the newest
> price? Is there any connection with the fact that both Euro/pound and
> AIR.PA had manually entered values?

I doesn't in my case. I have about 20 old values for EUR and it's 
definitely using the latest - if I add another one the valuation changes.
Most of them are "user:xfer-dialog" and only the latest is 
"user:price-editor". And I now have two "Finance::Quote" entries for 
GET.PA and it's using the later one of those.
I just added (manually) another GET.PA entry with a silly price and yes, 
the value was updated to match. Adding another one dated 2012 made no 
difference. So I have no idea where your discrepancy came from, sorry.

Can you see a EUR entry that matches the implied exchange rate?

> (B) It's not clear from my original post but my "real" version of 
> gnuCash has a different structure from the version I described. (I made
> them so that the reported structure was closer to "best practice" as I
> understood it.) Is there a connection between your solution and the
> changes I made.

I take it you are referring to the account hierarchy. I can't think why 
that would affect the value shown in the Accounts tab for a single entry.