On Sat, Jan 21, 2017, at 02:40 PM, o1bigtenor wrote: > Greetings > > I have this propensity to travel and/or to purchase this from out of > country. > This means that my credit card amount isn't the same as that displayed > on the invoice. > So I enter from the invoice and then adjust later when I get the > credit card invoice which tells me how much I paid in my currency. > Credit card exchange rates change often (think it might be on the > minute I'm really not sure how often the companies change their > exchange rates but I do know it doesn't stay the same for even one > day). > > This produces an invoice which in currency A reads like (nonsense > numbers) > > foo1 23.12 > foo2 4.25 > foo3 125.21 > foo4 23.25 > shipping & handling 15.24 > tax 12.34 > > Tt 203.41 > > the exchange rate is given as 1.302612 > > > Is there a way of writing the invoice in ledger so that the exchange > is applied to the amounts? > > Maybe I'm asking for something that goes further than ledger intends > to go but I know that although I am comfortable in doing the > calculations for this kind of issue that a lot people aren't. (That's > why a lot of people get others to do their bookkeeping for them!)
I live in a multi-currency world reguarly. I tend to track all of my currencies directly, such as 2017-01-01 Purchase in EUR on a USD CC Expense:Foo 5 EUR Liability:CC $5.10 If I enter the transaction before the CC bill arrives, I enter a tentative dollar amount and then clean it up in reconciliation. Does that help? regards, bex -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.