Read > On Jul 2, 2020, at 9:39 AM, Adrien Monteleone > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > Unless I read the original post wrong, and the OP could clarify, but it looks > like they were entering this split in a GBP based account (the GBP bank > account) and adding a GBP split for the bank charge. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > > >> On Jul 2, 2020 w27d184, at 11:34 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Jul 2, 2020, at 9:08 AM, Antonio Roberts <anto...@hellocatfood.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I'm in the UK doing most of my accounting in GBP (£) but in this case >>> I invoiced someone in EUR (€). Following the advice from here I sent >>> up a Bank in EUR, invoiced them in EUR and then transferred the EUR >>> into my GBP Bank with the current exchange rate (my bank supplies the >>> rate at the time of transaction). >>> >>> However, this conversion incurred a bank charge in GBP. In GNUcash >>> I've gone to my GBP Bank balance to the transaction line to split it >>> to deduct the bank transfer. When I do this it's asking me to do a >>> currency conversion from EUR to GBP. >>> >>> The funds are already in the GBP bank so why am I being asked to do >>> conversion again? Is there something I've done wrong? >> >> No, you haven't done anything wrong. Every transaction has a transaction >> currency that's used to balance the transaction. That currency is determined >> by the account from which the transaction is created, and in this case it's >> EUR, so GnuCash needs to know the value in EUR of the bank charge. Just use >> the same exchange rate that you used to convert the EUR payment to GBP.
Read it again: "That currency is determined by the account from which the TRANSACTION IS CREATED." Once the transaction is created its currency is immutable. It matters not a whit in what account one modifies it from. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ 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.
