Currency Maintenance

Sometimes regions change their currency, go out of business, join, split ...

Services by currency-iso.org

currency-iso.org is publishing several files in the section lists:

Schema

https://www.currency-iso.org/dam/downloads/schema.xsd

List of codes for historic denominations of currencies & funds

https://www.currency-iso.org/dam/downloads/lists/list_three.xml

Current currency & funds code list

https://www.currency-iso.org/dam/downloads/lists/list_one.xml

This has also the SCU as <CcyMnrUnts>

Current funds codes list

https://www.currency-iso.org/dam/downloads/lists/list_two.doc

Some central banks registered beneath their currency special funds. This doc explains them.

Amendments

https://www.currency-iso.org/dam/downloads/overview_amendments.xlsx

Changes to the currency codes lists occur if a currency is created, withdrawn or parts thereof altered.

Current targets

1. Create an XSLT to facilitate the maintainance of our list.

   A few thoughts: https://lists.gnucash.org/logs/2019/06/25.html#T17:22:04

2. Decide behaviour of GnuCash for existing accounts after changes

   This is currently only a collection if thoughts.

   1. General rule: let the user do the changes by creating new accounts and closing the old in the new accounts.
   2. Decimals dropped
   3. Replacement, e.g. 1000 RUR-> 1 RUB
3. Document what the users should do after currencies, which are used in their accounts, changed