[GNC] asset discrepancy in change of year

[Andrea Borgia]

Il giorno dom 28 mar 2021 alle ore 03:04 Christopher Lam <
christopher.lck at gmail.com> ha scritto:


>
> There is some discussion in an unusually detailed bug report
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797796 -- this originates in
> GnuCash's transaction currency being permitted to be any currency. e.g. if
> your home currency is USD, but transfer GBP to EUR, the UI will record only
> GBP/EUR fx. The new method would enforce the transaction currency to be USD
> therefore your GBP->EUR would require GBP/USD and EUR/USD fx rates. Thus,
> w.r.t. USD, all fx gains/losses are recorded accurately.
>
> To fix this would be an enormous amount of work and invalidate a lot of
> code, but would definitely simplify and fix a lot of code too IMHO.
>

Does it apply also to mutual funds purchased in a foreign currency?
For example,I operate in EUR, I change a given amount to USD and use it to
purchase a USD-denominated fund.
Will gnucash with the "trading account" option enabled record everything
correctly or is it just the scenario mentioned in the bugreport?


Also, by enabling trading account in the 2020 file, I managed to precisely
account for the discrepancy in capital at end of year / beginning of year.
Should I close this amount to my Capital:EUR account or can I just carry it
forward in the trading account for 2021? I've tried entering a transaction
in the trading account but it was left unbalanced, so I gave up.

 Thanks,
Andrea.