On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 16:46, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Hija,
>
> first of all I'd like to thank you for this great application. Some
> time ago I decided to go for a bit more organised life and gnucash
> helped me a lot with that.
>
> Now for the problems: :)
> Most european countries have been switching over to the Euro in some
> areas and as such it's really a shame that it's non-trivial to use
> GnuCash for that; it's unpossible in any EU country to pay stock
> shares in the old currency but there seems to be no easy way to
> simply tell GnuCash that the stocks are handled in Euro but the
> money is transferred from or to a DEM account; going over a special
> account to switch currencies is not only complicated and timeconsuming
> but also errorprone.
Yes, it certainly is. The next major release of GnuCash, hopefully
before the end of the year, will allow you to transfer between any
two accounts directly, no intermediate currency accounts required.
> I also have no idea how to tell the "Portofolio" script to use EUR
> instead of DEM by default; it always jumps back to DEM though there
> is not a single stock account in this currency (there's no way to
> by shares in DEM anymore....)
Have you tried changing the 'default' currency to EUR in the settings
window?
> Another thing that would be really handy is an builtin calculator;
> because of the above mentioned deficits I always had to recalculate the
> single entries of my wagecalculation into DEM since I have been paid
> in DEM but everything was companyinternally calculated in EUR to
> be able to get an overview of the single items and the paid taxes
> in general.
You can enter expressions in any field that accepts numerical
input. You can even define conversion variables (x=5.5) and gnucash
will remember them.
dave
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