Hi,
Is it possible to tell Ledger an entry with transactions in two commodities /
currencies balances, so that it can calculate the exchange rate?
Motivating situation: I am in the US, and I withdrew, say, USD 200.00 from my
Canadian chequing account. The ATM here charged me USD 2.50 as an additional
fee. The withdrawal shows up in my online banking as CAD 203.42 or something
like that. In addition to this, my bank in Canada charged me a CAD 2.00 fee.
I would like to write something like the following:
2012-03-12 * Withdrawal
Assets:Cash USD 200.00
Expenses:Banking:Fees USD 2.50
Assets:Chequing CAD -203.42
Expenses:Banking:Fees CAD 2.00
Assets:Chqeuing CAD -2.00
and tell Ledger that this balances, so it can work out the rate. I have used
the @@ in the past, but that was on withdrawals in the UK where the ATMs do not
charge fees. Dealing with the CAD fee is simple, it's the USD fee here that is
throwing things off; the only way I can see is to do a manual calculation of
the portion that the USD 2.50 makes up of the CAD 203.42. This seems wrong.
Is there a way to get Ledger to do what I want?
Thanks,
-Kamal
