On Thursday 09 October 2014 14:30:28 Alex Aycinena wrote: > Developers, > > I am planning to add a feature to gnucash, primarily, but not > exclusively, related to currency accounting, and wanted to summarize > what I was thinking of. I would welcome feedback. > > Since version 2.4.0, GnuCash supports trading accounts as described in > 'Tutorial on multiple currency accounting' and 'Multiple currency > accounting in GnuCash' by P. Selinger (see > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Trading_Accounts). I believe Mike > Alexander added this feature. > > In his tutorial, he (P. Selinger) mentions a 'reference currency > method' as an alternative to the use of trading accounts. This is > essentially the feature I wish to add. > > Today, in file->properties->Accounts tab, you can turn "trading > accounts" on or off. I propose to change this to a selection of three > alternatives: use trading accounts, specify a 'book currency', or > neither trading accounts nor book currency. If trading accounts is > selected, it would work as implemented by Mike. If neither is > selected, it would work as gnucash does now without trading accounts > selected. So no one would be forced to use the new feature. > What benefit does the current situation (without trading accounts) have on its own compared to your new proposal ? In other words should we really keep the old way or can it be modeled in your new proposal as well by for example assuming a default currency ?
Or a related question: how hard would it be to migrate an existing multi-currency book without trading accounts to your proposal ? Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
