Just my humble opinion, see below inline. Am 17.02.2019 um 20:50 schrieb Christian Kluge:
Am 17.02.2019 um 19:58 schrieb Wm via gnucash-devel: Often times with cash transactions it happens that people use simple exchange rates which are nowhere near the actual rates. So I might be paying 5 EUR for a service worth 20 PLN according to the receipt, so you might assume that the exchange rate is 1 to 4, but the actual rates are in a range of 1 to 4.2/4.3.
If you paid 5 EUR for that service, then this is the only fact that matters for accounting. Some account (bank or cash) is decreased by 5 EUR and some expense account is increased by 5 EUR. Nobody (at least not the german tax authorities, if you want to report this expense for tax purposes) cares that the service might be worth 20 PLN. You paid 5 EUR for it and that you need to record.
So unless we’re talking about bank transfers or exchanging real currency there are situations where you’d want rates instead of the actual amounts exchanged.
The only thing that matters for accounting are the actual amounts exchanged.
I also wanted to add that the bug with not being able to see the currency exchange rates in the price list also effects me running 3.4 with the sqlite backend. I can however add the rates to the list and they’re used in transactions and listed on balance sheets if requested. Kind regards Christian Kluge _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
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