[GNC] Exchange rates and split transactions

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

Yeah, but the credit and expense accounts are in EUR. 

⁣David T.​

On Aug 22, 2025, 8:53 AM, at 8:53 AM, Guido <guido at ioguido.com> wrote:
>The subaccount is already set in TRY; it's nested in a main bank
>account, set to EUR.
>
>On Thu, 2025-08-21 at 13:32 -0400, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
>Consider creating and using accounts denominated in TRY? Or keep
>everything in Euros?
>
>On 8/21/2025 9:07 AM, Guido via gnucash-user wrote:
>Any thoughts?
>
>On Mon, 2025-08-18 at 12:23 +0000, Guido via gnucash-user wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I have a bank subaccount in TRY under a parent account in EUR. When I
>record expenses in TRY, I use a split transaction, as each entry is 50%
>expense and 50% credit. For example:
>
>Expense: 34 TRY
>Credit: 34 TRY
>TRY account: -68 TRY
>
>When entering each positive amount, GnuCash (5.10 on Ubuntu) asks for
>either an exchange rate or the corresponding EUR amount. I choose to
>enter the EUR amounts. If the total EUR amount is uneven, the amounts
>naturally differ by 0.01 EUR, resulting in two slightly different
>exchange rates.
>
>For example, 68 TRY exchanged as 1.59 EUR would split as:
>
>Expense: 0.80 EUR
>Credit: 0.79 EUR
>
>The problem is that the last exchange rate entered seems to overwrite
>the rate for the first transaction, causing inconsistencies in the
>parent account. Instead of -1.59 EUR, I end up with -1.60 EUR or -1.58
>EUR depending on which exchange rate I enter last.
>
>Has anyone encountered this situation? Am I doing something wrong?
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