Good point, I didn’t think of that. And as Geert described, GC is designed to use separate A/R (and presumably A/P) for each currency and likely for that very reason among others.
Regards, Adrien > On Jun 2, 2018, at 11:40 PM, Matthew Pounsett <m...@conundrum.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 00:14 Adrien Monteleone > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Just out of curiosity, can you not post a CAD invoice to an A/R account that > is set for USD? > > I would have thought that GnuCash would have done the conversions for you. > > I don’t think you would actually want to do this. The delay between posting > the invoice and receiving a payment leaves a huge potoetmtial for discrepancy > between any conversion done at post time and the conversion done at the time > of deposit. > > I have several A/R accounts now, but wires from my clients all go into an > account in my home currency.. so when I do the payment I just enter the > conversion rate that my bank gave me at deposit time and it all balances out > without having to go back and correct anything after the fact. > > > > Thankfully, I don’t have that problem (yet) but my first inclination would be > to do just that: maintain MY A/R account in my home currency but invoice > customers in their home currency. I don’t see why it would be any different > than any other transaction posted into an account with a different currency > default. Perhaps I’m misunderstanding something. > > But if you can do as I suppose, you could eliminate the complication of extra > accounts and the placeholder issue and just use the A/R account as normal. > (save for the conversions done for foreign billing and the conversion on > several reports) > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Jun 1, 2018, at 8:39 AM, Matthew Pounsett <m...@conundrum.com> wrote: > > > > A short aside.. I think there may still be a bug here. > > > > Even though Assets:Accounts Receivable is set to Placeholder, it gets > > offered as a choice for posting to when I'm posting an invoice... only when > > I try to post to it I get an error that I'm trying to post to a placeholder > > account. It should probably be excluded from the list of choices. > > > > I'll add that to the bugtracker. > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
