[GNC] Changing Currency in Price Data

[David Carlson]

Isn't it possible that a stock can be quoted in more that one currency?  If
it is traded on more than one exchange or priced privately, possibly if it
is not traded publicly but a private price is publicly available as a few
securities such as XDNIX (quoted on Yahoo) in the United States.  I think
GnuCash can track such cases if the user wants to track them.

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 11:16 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
>
> > On Apr 10, 2021, at 6:25 AM, Ingo Planz <planz at pantherrey.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > in my price data, the currency for one of the stocks has changed. It
> used to be in EUR, which is also the default currency and reporting
> currency. Since recently that stock price is stored in JPY.
> > I also do have the corresponding exchange rate in the price database as
> well.
> >
> > However, both the values computed for both the Accounts tab as well as
> reports (method: nearest in time) ignore the newer JPY prices and use the
> final EUR price.
> >
> > If I do delete all the EUR prices, it works as expected and computes
> values by converting the JPY prices with the exchange rate.
> >
> > Am I missing something or am I doing it wrong? Can I change the currency
> in the stock price data like this?
>
> GnuCash understands the currency in which the stock is priced to be the
> currency of the stock account's immediate parent, so you would create a
> parent account of type ASSET denominated in JPY and make that new account
> the stock account's parent.
>
> But why exactly did the stock's quote currency change? That's not a common
> occurrence.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
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David Carlson