It's been rumoured that Per Bojsen said:
>
> *** Regarding Re: Transfer between bank accounts with different
> currencies; [EMAIL PROTECTED] adds:
>
> linas> In general, walking the tree of accounts and subaccounts can be
> linas> tricky. I'm thinking that maybe there should be a rule that
> linas> states that currency accounts can never be top-level accounts,
> linas> unless they trade gnucashes default currency.
>
> What is GnuCash' default currency? How is it set? Is this part of
> your solution described or is there already a default currency?
>
> linas> The only allowed subaccounts are those that trade one of the
> linas> (two) currencies of the parent account.
>
> So if the default currency is USD you can have a USD/DKK currency
> account at the top level. However, if you needed a DEM/FRF currency
> account, you would have to add a USD/DEM account as a subaccount of
> the USD/DKK, and then the DEM/FRF account could be a subaccount of
> USD/DEM. Is this what you intended?
>
> What about regular (non-currency) accounts valued in different
> currencies than the default currency? Should they also be subaccounts
> of a currency account, then?
Right, that sounds ugly. Got a better idea? How do other systems do it?
--linas
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