*** Regarding Transfer between bank accounts with different currencies; Graham Leggett
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Graham> I have been trying to experiment with the transfer of money
Graham> from a bank account of one currency to another, and so far I
Graham> haven't managed to work out the correct way of doing this.
The best way I've found is to actually do it as two separate
transactions. One transfer from the first bank account to the
currency account which will also record the exchange rate. The second
transaction will then be a transfer from the currency account to the
second bank account. Here the exchange rate will be 1 because you're
transferring an amount in the same currency as that of the second bank
account.
Unfortunately, I found there was a bug that prevented the above from
being done through the normal gnucash user interface. I sent the
patch in a previous mail. I forgot to mention that the patch was
against gnucash 1.1.27.
Another problem with the above is that the two sums at the bottom of
the main window (assets and profits) will get out of sync even though
double entry has been followed, simply because the sums are done over
all accounts without regard for the different currencies. I'm not
sure how to do this correctly, but I think you either need separate
sums for each currency with a special way to handle any inter-currency
transfers, or you need to select a preferred currency and have the
sums of all the accounts in other currencies somehow converted into
the preferred currency.
--
Per Bojsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
6132 Lexington Ridge Drive
Lexington, MA 02421-8317
USA
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