Long, Tthese accounts in Equity are Opening Balances. They are intended to treat the situation where you start using Gnucash and you already have existing assets or accounts with existing balances in other currencies when you create the set of books. They serve no other purpose. Any trading gains or losses prior to this are not in this set of books. Any trading gains or losses after this are reflected in the trading accounts and reported in the Balance Sheet
If a currency 's value increases relative to your book currency, then both assets and your equity are increasing by the amount of that increase. this is the way double entry accounting works. How is it that you don't know what is going on with the trading accounts? AFAIK The trading gains or losses in other currencies should be converted to the book currency and the totals displayed in the book currency but it should be possible to display the balances in the original currency and then converted to the book currency by increasing the number of levels in the balance sheet display as it is for Assets and Equity and that would be my expectation. I do not at this point have a dummy transaction setup to create a gain or loss in my dummy test book for trading accounts. You can also opt to display the exchange rates which also appear without labels for the currencies involved. I must say I find the lack of column headers identifying the currency a column is in in the expanded displaya bit disconcerting. but you can always copy the report to a spreadsheet and add such niceities there. If you increase the number of levels of account displayed does it not display the individual currency trading accounts as it does for assets and equity? Have you explored the report options. Edit->ReportOptions? The report has to be open before you edit the options and then you use the apply button to apply them to the open report. You cn aslo save the report with specific options set for later use. David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
