[GNC] Have I got my USD accounts set up wrong?

David Kirkby drkirkby at kirkbymicrowave.co.uk
Thu Nov 30 08:37:47 EST 2023


The attached has the single USD/GBP transaction that I'm having problems
with the reporting with. But the reporting is fine on this demo.

On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 at 13:20, David Kirkby <drkirkby at kirkbymicrowave.co.uk>
wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 at 12:13, Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>
>> Apparently so!
>>
>
> I have lost the plot I think.
>
> I think there's a bug in the reporting.
>
> Here's a demo account, with the GBP shown correctly for USD sales, but the
> value of the USD sales is not given. I don't know if that's intentional or
> not, but having both the GBP and USD would seem nice.
>
> [image: image.png]
>
>
> But the ones I produced for my accountant have the foreign currency too,
> which is nice. I have not blanked out the $540 transaction, but left that.
> The GBP amount is wrong. But I'm not sure what the intended behavior of the
> report is.
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> Looking in the bank account for that transaction I see
> [image: image.png]
> In the trial balance
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> So there are 3 different GBP figures for these reports.
> 1) $540 was converted by the bank into £424.00. It shown as that in the
> bank account.
> 2) P&L shows $540 and £441.67. The £441.67 is wrong (£17.67 too high).
> 3) Trial balance shows £434.98 which is also wrong. (£10.98 too low)
>
> I suppose it's worth reporting this as a bug, despite the fact I can't
> reproduce it in a test case, which would obviously be most helpful to the
> developers.
>
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