[GNC] Tracking Currency Investments

[David Cousens]

I don't have any experience with share sales in foreign currencies but i have
a little with foreign currency transactions themselves. 

One issue may be that the view presented in the Table is as if from the
register for the USD account. AFAIK in that register display, any amounts
from account in other currencies will normally appear as USD amounts
converted from the other currency amounts using the appropriate exchange
rate/price. There will be two prices involved, the share price at sale in
the foreign currency and the exchange rate between the foreign currency and
USD as well as the fee charged for the currency conversion.

There is one error in the documentation in the previous section on the
accounts as when tracking capital gains/losses you will need both

    Assets:Investments:Currency:Bank (USD)
    Assets:Investments:Currency:XXX (XXX)

and not just the Assets:Investments:Currency:Bank (USD) as listed in the
documentation as well as the additional accounts for the capital gains/loss
recording.  It would have been a bit more instructive to have shown in the
documentation the same transaction from one of the XXX currency account
registers (in which all the amounts will be in currency XXX and the price
for conversion to USD normally appears in the price column.

Don't know if this is enough to sort it out until someone with foreign
currency share transaction experience can reply.

David Cousens



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