Hi Kevin, To avoid misunderstandings: I'm actually talking about the expense buckets and not the accounts. What I see happening is that the amount of money in my expense buckets, without assigning transactions but only by changing the exchange rate, are affected and change. I would be happy to send you a file if that helps.
I see two related problems here: 1) it seems this means transactions are valued according to the latest exchange rate and not the rate that the user set at a certain time; so as you said having MW respect historic transactions solves this 2) but, more fundamentally, this also affects the whole budget: if I assign, say, 500 euro to my rent bucket from my euro income account a change in exchange rate should not affect that amount of 500 euros? This is exactly what happens now after an exchange rate adjustment. I understand that if I pay my rent in pounds the currency rate matters for transactions I assign to the bucket. But the basic amount in the bucket is now also affected after a rate change regardless of any transactions having taken place or not. All best, Gerben On 8 feb, 13:38, Kevin Hoctor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 8, 2009, at 7:10 AM, Gerben wrote: > > > Just one more question: could you let me know when a beta is there > > which does not change historic transactions? > > > I also wondered: I cannot remember that this happened to me with > > version 1.4.2 where I also adjusted rates without (if I remember this > > correctly) it affecting my buckets/spending plan. Is it possible > > something changed between 1.4.2 and 1.4.3? At the moment I have > > stopped working with MW since the latest change I made in exchange > > rate suddenly meant a difference of 100+ euros in my buckets. > > Hi Gerben, > > If changing your exchange rate should cause some change in the value > of your buckets because the cash you have assigned to those that are > not in your base currency (as deposits or withdrawals) has changed its > value. If you have a deposit of 100 pounds but your base is in euros > and the rate changes, your account hold the pounds will be valued > differently now. > > This functionality has been active since 1.4 and prior to that, > exchange rates did not affect buckets at all, which was more incorrect. > > The 1.5 release will most likely enhance this further by using a > transaction level rate/amount but if most of your budget-level > accounts are in your base currency, the fluctuations in exchange rates > shouldn't be a huge problem. > > Peace, > > Kevin Hoctor > [email protected] > No Thirst Software LLChttp://nothirst.comhttp://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
