[GNC] currency of "value" in stock account

[Lionel Élie Mamane]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 07:31:08AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> On Tue, November 9, 2021 6:41 am, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote:

>> I create an account of type "Stock" that uses that security, let's say
>> assets:investments:foobar
>> I open the register for that account

>> Now, there are columns "price" (which is per-share-price), and
>> columns "buy" and "sell" which are the total price of the
>> transaction. What is not clear to me, is what currency are these
>> columns in? I didn't make a choice for that, and it doesn't seem to
>> be indicated on screen.

> It is the currency of the parent account.  So in this case it would
> be the currency of Assets:Investments.

OK, thanks.

>> There seems to something strange going on, because I enter, in basic
>> ledger mode,

>> account: assets:current assets:some bank account
>> shares: 5
>> Price: 21

>> But in the "assets:current assets:some bank account" ledger,
>> both splits of that transaction have an empty amount :-|

> Let me guess -- Assets:Current Assets:Some Bank Account uses a
> different currency than Assets:Investments, right?

Yes. Shouldn't I then get the pop-up dialog asking me the exchange
rate to use? Like I do when transferring between

Assets:Current Assets:EUR Bank Account
and
Assets:Current Assets:USD Bank Account