It's been rumoured that Per Bojsen said:
> I found one bug that prevented the engine from accepting certain
> transfers involving two currencies. I think the following patch
> fixes the problem:
Thanks, good catch, I've merged it in, should be out shortly.
> Unfortunately, this is asymmetric in that the two currencies have
> different status. I have bank accounts in Denmark and the US and I
> would like to treat both on an equal basis. I've found that I need to
> create duplicate income and expense accounts for all the categories I
> have, one for each currency.
Hmm, I'm trying to figure out if this is a bug or a feature.
Let me think out loud:
if every transaction was in USD, or had an exchange rate from DKK to USD,
then you could have just one income acct. But if some of the income
was in DKK with no conversion, there would be no way to compute a total
or running balance ... and so you would need two accts.
Generically, it seems to me theoretically impossible to not keep dual
accts ... if I have 100USD and 100DKK in the morning, and the exchange
rate changes, I still have 100 of each in the evening, I still have to
count each separately.
However, I agree, it would be a nice feature to have a consolidated report:
the grand total of the two accts based on some recent exchange rate.
The whole reporting subsystem needs a lot of work & enhancement (and
I think there was a pledge to convert reports from perl to scheme for the
future versions).
--linas
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