On 2015-10-31 21:00:00 +0000, Martin Blais said:
2009/06/03 Exchange cash
Assets:Cash £564.91
Assets:Cash XCD -2,730.00
Income:Currency
Note that the usage of an auto-posting in this way effectively nuls and
voids the verification the double-entry system provides you with. You
can put any garbage numbers in there and it will still work (just to be
clear: that's _not_ what we want).
Correct, but strictly speaking that is true even for a single currency:
2009/06/03 Spend money
Expenses:Other £564.91
Assets:Cash
Anyway, I understand that giving up some integrity may be problematic.
That's why I said that the system may or may not work depending on
the requirements.
In Beancount, you can implement that with a plugin, one that allows
you to automatically using Peter's currency trading method, without
having to insert a special account (the plugin would automatically
insert transactions whenever groups of postings with the different
currencies don't balance perfectly).
Do you mean an existing plugin or something that a user might write to
extend Beancount?
Life
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