Scott,
I don't know what's going on and I can't replicate it. I created a VND account
in a test book and created the following transactions (This is a Transaction
report with one line per split set on the Display tab. I've also turned off
Force prices to decimal in Preferences>Numbers, Date, Time.):
Date Account Shares Price
Debit Credit
01/01/2023 VND Cash 2,000,000.00
$0.0000425 ₫2,000,000
Checking Account -85.00 $1.0000
$85.00
07/23/2023 VND Cash -49,530.00 ₫1.00
₫49,530
Books 2.09
₫23,698 + 118/209 $2.09
07/25/2023 VND Cash -136,000.00 ₫1.00
₫136,000
Groceries 5.68
₫23,943 + 47/71 $5.68
I entered the price three different ways: For the first I started in the
USD-denominated Checking Account register, entered 85.00 in the register's
Credit field and 2000000 in the Debit Amount field of the transfer dialog. The
other two I started in the VND Cash register and put values in the price field;
as a rational number for the first and a decimal number (editing the one the
Transfer dialog presented; that was before I changed the Force prices to
decimal preference. The book does not have Trading accounts enabled. GnuCash is
v5.3.
Regards,
John Ralls
> On Jul 25, 2023, at 00:57, Scott Ellsworth <sc...@fastmail.us> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> Another update about the strange behavior: Just now I came back from shopping
> and recorded three transactions. When inputting the first transaction, the
> exchange rate was still in place from yesterday. For the second and third
> transactions, the exchange rate was blank both times and I had to input it
> manually. This time I tried entering "0.00004237" instead of the fraction.
> But now the Account Summary again shows that my dong cash has zero value.
>
> Be Well,
>
> Scott
> <<<< Scott Ellsworth || +1 (775) 386-2519 >>>>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Scott Ellsworth <sc...@fastmail.us <mailto:sc...@fastmail.us>>
> To: john <jra...@ceridwen.us <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>>
> Cc: GnuCash user forum <gnucash-user@gnucash.org
> <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] strange lack of exchange rates in a new currency cash
> account
> Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 09:15
>
> Hi John,
>
> As you're looking around in there to see what's happening, it might be useful
> if I summarize a couple of key points (though perhaps you've already gathered
> this from our discussion): I was consistently seeing the total value of my
> dong cash at zero value, apparently because I had entered the actual amount
> received from ATM withdrawals, and because I had written exchange rates for
> transactions every time with fractions. But at the same time, all
> transactions except one visit to a grocery store showed normal values in
> dollars on my income statement and expense bar chart, reflecting my actual
> local expenses in Vietnam so far. In that one problematic transaction, I saw
> a zero value (or actually a missing number) for the dollar value of the food
> component in the split transaction. I corrected that after I discovered it.
>
> Be Well,
>
> Scott
> <<<< Scott Ellsworth || +1 (775) 386-2519 >>>>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Scott Ellsworth <sc...@fastmail.us <mailto:sc...@fastmail.us>>
> To: john <jra...@ceridwen.us <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>>
> Cc: GnuCash user forum <gnucash-user@gnucash.org
> <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] strange lack of exchange rates in a new currency cash
> account
> Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 08:34
>
> <<<< Scott Ellsworth || +1 (775) 386-2519 >>>>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: john <jra...@ceridwen.us <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>>
> To: Scott Ellsworth <sc...@fastmail.us <mailto:sc...@fastmail.us>>
> Cc: GnuCash user forum <gnucash-user@gnucash.org
> <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] strange lack of exchange rates in a new currency cash
> account
> Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 00:38
>
> Your issues with the transfer dialog seem strange. I just tried a 2,000,000
> transfer with a rate of 1/23600 in the dialog and got a value of 84.75. The
> decimal display on the right of the rate entry is 0.000042, but that's just
> because that display is limited to 6 decimal digits; GnuCash actually stores
> the number as 1/23600. i'll have to probe that some more to figure out what's
> going on.
> I should mention that when doing ATM withdrawals I've always entered the
> actual amount I received instead of the exchange rate, since that keeps it
> accurate. I've done ATM withdrawals this way in ten other currencies so far
> in the past couple years, and have never had problems. but the Vietnamese
> dong is a very small unit of currency. I suppose if I had to enter the
> exchange rate instead, I'd have to calculate it pretty precisely and then
> watch carefully for discrepancies in the final amount. I'll probably try that
> for now.
>
> In the report the 0 or 1 prices in the transaction report are due to
> transaction currency: Notice that it's either $0.00 or ₫1.00. The latter
> transactions were started in the VND account so the transaction currency is
> VND, hence the price of ₫1.00. The $0.00 is a display issue: The default
> price display is 2 more digits than the currency's smallest fraction, .00 for
> both USD and VND, so .0000, and 1/23600 rounded to 4 places is 0.
> Okay, I overlooked that. So basically, $0.00 is for converting dollars to
> dong, while ₫1.00 is for my transactions in dong with no currency conversion.
>
> Be Well,
>
> Scott
>
>
>> On Jul 23, 2023, at 22:02, Scott Ellsworth <sc...@fastmail.us> wrote:
>>
>> Hi John,
>> ----- Original message -----
>> From: john <jra...@ceridwen.us <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>>
>> To: Scott Ellsworth <sc...@fastmail.us <mailto:sc...@fastmail.us>>
>> Cc: GnuCash user forum <gnucash-user@gnucash.org
>> <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>>
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] strange lack of exchange rates in a new currency cash
>> account
>> Date: Monday, July 24, 2023 02:09
>> > On Jul 23, 2023, at 03:11, Scott Ellsworth <sc...@fastmail.us
>> > <mailto:sc...@fastmail.us>> wrote:
>> It works off the latest price in the pricedb. If that's 0 then so will be
>> the home-currency values on the accounts page and in the summary bar.
>> Editing transactions won't change an entry in the pricedb. Only creating a
>> transaction will, and then only if there isn't already a corresponding price
>> for that day. That means that if you create the first transaction of the day
>> with a zero price and immediately correct it you still have a 0 price in the
>> pricedb that you have to manually fix or delete.
>> Okay, that's good to know. I went into the Price Database and created a
>> price entry for dong for today. I had not made any transactions before that
>> today. When I went over to the Account Summary and refreshed the page, for
>> the very first time so far it showed a non-zero value for my total dong
>> cash: ₫1,232,000.00 $52.20. And when I created a test transaction, it
>> showed an exchange rate waiting for me for only the second time I've seen so
>> far.
>>
>> Not in the register view, in Transaction report options on the Display page,
>> but in light of your other answers I think that it's not necessary.
>> Okay, I did that report and I'm sending a screenshot here. This might be a
>> useful result, because it looks like it's showing an exchange rate of either
>> 1 or 0 throughout. I don't understand that.
>>
>> So far, it seems like I can enter an exchange rate in the Price Database but
>> it hasn't taken my exchange rates that I enter into the register manually
>> (which I always do because the exchange rate is blank). I have a hypothesis
>> about this: I normally type "1/23600" in the exchange rate field for
>> transactions. Perhaps the program automatically truncates the calculated
>> values to four decimal places. When I added a price for today in the Price
>> Database I tried typing it instead as "0.00004237" just in case it might
>> make a difference. I think it still truncated it to six decimals, so
>> "0.000042," but at least that registers as a normal exchange rate, even if
>> it's less exact. So when I add money to my dong cash account by doing an ATM
>> withdrawal, those exchange rates are calculating automatically because I
>> always input the exact number of dong that I received. Maybe it calculated
>> and truncated from that as well, giving me zeroes all the time.
>>
>> But the Transaction Report with binary exchange rates is still confusing to
>> me.
>>
>> Let me know what you suggest.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> >
>> > *Be Well,***
>> > * ***
>> > *Scott***
>> > <<<< Scott Ellsworth || +1 (775) 386-2519 >>>>
>> > On Jul 22, 2023, at 01:34, Scott Ellsworth <sc...@fastmail.us
>> > <mailto:sc...@fastmail.us>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi John,
>> >>
>> >> Every transaction is big enough to equal more than one cent. And the dong
>> >> cash register starts with an ATM withdrawal of 2 million dong.
>> >>
>> >> In the Price Database, which I was not familiar with before, I see three
>> >> entries, two of which are at zero value. The Account Summary now shows
>> >> "₫540,780.00 $0.00" but the transactions do usually have dollar
>> >> equivalent values: When I look at my Food account I see that the most
>> >> recent transactions were worth $1.18, $0.25, and $38.53. But I notice one
>> >> transaction from the 19th, a split transaction where the Food component
>> >> came out to zero and the number fields are simply blank on that line, not
>> >> with zeroes shown. The other parts of the transaction were $6.19 spent
>> >> from Assets:Cash:vn dong balanced against $3.18 spent on Expenses:Health,
>> >> so the transaction obviously does not balance. When I go to the blank
>> >> line for Expenses:Food and click on Jump, nothing happens. But when I go
>> >> to the Cash:vn dong account and find that transaction, I see an amount
>> >> for the food component, 549,000 dong, which was missing in the Food
>> >> account.
>> >>
>> >> This is confusing. I hope my file is not corrupted, since my financial
>> >> data is important to me. And it's strange that even after I created a
>> >> second dong cash account to test, the new account had the same exact
>> >> problems.
>> >>
>> >> Be Well,
>> >>
>> >> Scott
>> >> <<<< Scott Ellsworth || +1 (775) 386-2519 >>>>
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original message -----
>> >> From: john <jra...@ceridwen.us <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>>
>> >> To: Scott Ellsworth <sc...@fastmail.us <mailto:sc...@fastmail.us>>
>> >> Cc: GnuCash user forum <gnucash-user@gnucash.org
>> >> <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>>
>> >> Subject: Re: [GNC] strange lack of exchange rates in a new currency cash
>> >> account
>> >> Date: Friday, July 21, 2023 23:24
>> >>
>> >> Scott,
>> >>
>> >> Did you perhaps get the balance to 2M VND in small increments so that
>> >> the USD value of every transaction rounded to $0.00? That would have
>> >> prevented the price from being recorded, resulting in the symptoms you
>> >> describe. If you've been trying to use VND for several days you can look
>> >> at the price database entries to see if any of the earlier transactions
>> >> recorded prices.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> John Ralls
>> >>
>> >>> On Jul 21, 2023, at 01:14, Scott Ellsworth <sc...@fastmail.us
>> >>> <mailto:sc...@fastmail.us>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Another strange thing: It might be starting to work normally now: I just
>> >>> entered a couple of transactions and accidentally entered the exchange
>> >>> rate as 23,600 instead of 1/23,6000. Now it's starting to show the
>> >>> dollar equivalent on the Account Summary, even after I went back and
>> >>> corrected the exchange rate on those two transactions. I'm not sure if
>> >>> it's fixed, but at least for right now it appears to be working normally
>> >>> again.
>> >>>
>> >>> Be Well,
>> >>>
>> >>> Scott
>> >>> <<<< Scott Ellsworth || +1 (775) 386-2519 >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ----- Original message -----
>> >>> From: Scott Ellsworth <sc...@fastmail.us <mailto:sc...@fastmail.us>>
>> >>> To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
>> >>> Subject: strange lack of exchange rates in a new currency cash account
>> >>> Date: Friday, July 21, 2023 15:06
>> >>>
>> >>> Dear fellow Gnucash users,
>> >>>
>> >>> I have a strange problem with a new currency account that I just added
>> >>> the other day: I created a cash account for Vietnamese dong (VND), and
>> >>> somehow it's not working with exchange rates. The two strange things I'm
>> >>> noticing are:
>> >>> 1. Every time I create a new transaction in this account, I have to type
>> >>> in an exchange rate manually. (With other cash accounts (other than USD,
>> >>> my default currency) an exchange rate always is remembered from earlier
>> >>> transactions.)
>> >>> 2. On my Account Summary report, I see the new account, which I've named
>> >>> "vn dong" and placed under Assets > Cash, and the number of dong that I
>> >>> have in cash, but the US dollar equivalent always shows up as zero. (I
>> >>> use "Cash" as a placeholder account, under which I have all my cash
>> >>> currencies including US dollars, euros, Japanese yen, etc.) Right now,
>> >>> for example, it shows "₫2,080,870.00 $0.00" but in dollars that should
>> >>> be about $88.
>> >>>
>> >>> I thought maybe the new account was somehow corrupted, so I tried
>> >>> creating a new one from scratch, but the same problem occurred again.
>> >>>
>> >>> The one thing that is different about this currency compared to all
>> >>> others for which I have cash accounts is that it's very tiny: It's about
>> >>> 23,600 dong per US dollar. Is Gnucash not able to handle such extreme
>> >>> exchange rates?
>> >>>
>> >>> Be Well,
>> >>>
>> >>> Scott
>> >>> <<<< Scott Ellsworth || +1 (775) 386-2519 >>>>
>> >>>
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>> > Be Well,
>> >
>> > Scott
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