On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Brian Exelbierd <b...@pobox.com> wrote: > 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?
I've been just entering the amounts in the 'other' currency and then adjusting them after I get the credit card invoice. Its a nuisance having to multiply 10 or more numbers by a 6 decimal digit number and not making a mistake. Was wondering if there were some neat little 'add in' or some such so that I could just plug in the exchange rate and then possibly even automagically the values would change to the ones for my base currency. I'm trying to automate my book-keeping trying to make less things where I could make a mistake! Our ideas aren't too different - - - I think - - - - thanks! Dee -- --- 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.
