Matthew Vanecek schrieb: > > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 05:18, Herbert Thoma wrote: > > > There are stocks that are listed at more than one exchange. I can buy shares > > of Siemens in Frankfurt for EUR and sell them in New York for USD. > > (This is no ADR, it's really dual listing) > > > > When you buy/sell stocks like that, how do you currently account for > them? I.e., how do you deal with the same stock on different exchanges > in different currencies (looking for current actual practice here)? How > would you *like* to account for them?
I said I can (at least my online-broker tells me so), not that I did ... If I sell some stock in New York, I gess that I would get the amount in EUR (minus a huge fee) to my cash account. > My thought was that, for reporting purposes only, accounts of different > currencies could get converted on the fly to your home currency via an > exchange rate dialog (or automatic determination via pricedb, maybe). > Similar to getting up-to-the-minute quotes for current-value > statements... > > -- > Matthew Vanecek > perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' > ******************************************************************************** > For 93 million miles, there is nothing between the sun and my shadow except me. > I'm always getting in the way of something... > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Name: signature.asc > signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature > Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Herbert Thoma FhG-IIS A, Studio Department Am Weichselgarten 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Phone: +49-9131-776-323 Fax: +49-9131-776-399 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.iis.fhg.de/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
