Re: [GNC] lost balancing a USD bill with AUD bank account

2023-11-19 Thread AP
Hi, On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 02:42:57PM +1000, David Cousens wrote: > Unless you have a lot of business in USD it is not generally worth setting up > a > separate USD account. I usually do the occasional purchase totally in AUD > with a > note in the description of the USD->AUD conversion rate. I

Re: [GNC] lost balancing a USD bill with AUD bank account

2023-11-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
There was a fairly recent bug about mixed currencies with bills & invoices. I thought it was sorted out. (my solution was to use Trading Accounts, but it turns out that should not be necessary, and no longer is required.) https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798734 - I don't recall se

Re: [GNC] lost balancing a USD bill with AUD bank account

2023-11-18 Thread David Cousens
Andrew, Unless you have a lot of business in USD it is not generally worth setting up a separate USD account. I usually do the occasional purchase totally in AUD with a note in the description of the USD->AUD conversion rate. In this case the transaction looks like: Bank Account Cr AUD value of

Re: [GNC] lost balancing a USD bill with AUD bank account

2023-11-18 Thread AP
On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 12:22:10PM +1100, AP wrote: > I thought of creating a "fake" bank account and buying USD at the right > rate and then using that to pay off the USD bill (leaving the real AUD > account to pay the transaction fee) but that seems a little kludgy and > a bit of a pain. Also not

[GNC] lost balancing a USD bill with AUD bank account

2023-11-18 Thread AP
Hi, I've a bill in USD that has been paid with an AUD bank account and I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to link the bill with the withdrawal in gnucash. The biggest hassle, I believe, is that the withdrawal comes as one transaction but contains payment for two bills: 1. the USD bill 2