Re: [GNC-dev] Use trading accounts only for currency conversion

2019-05-11 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 05/05/2019 09:41, cicko wrote: As I've written in https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797227: I suspect that the purpose of the trading accounts was to account for the loss/gain in currency conversion (only). Your suspicion is incorrect. Not sure if applying the trading accounts for

Re: [GNC-dev] Use trading accounts only for currency conversion

2019-05-07 Thread Derek Atkins
"Frank H. Ellenberger" writes: > Alen, > > IMHO it is a bad idea. Imagine I buy shares in Frankfurt against EUR and > sell them against USD in New York. ISTR at least Siemens was for some time > listed at both places. I you only record currencies, the link is missing. I will note that right now

Re: [GNC-dev] Use trading accounts only for currency conversion

2019-05-06 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Alen, IMHO it is a bad idea. Imagine I buy shares in Frankfurt against EUR and sell them against USD in New York. ISTR at least Siemens was for some time listed at both places. I you only record currencies, the link is missing. Regards Frank Am So., 5. Mai 2019 um 10:43 Uhr schrieb cicko : > As

[GNC-dev] Use trading accounts only for currency conversion

2019-05-05 Thread cicko
As I've written in https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797227: I suspect that the purpose of the trading accounts was to account for the loss/gain in currency conversion (only). Not sure if applying the trading accounts for other commodities makes sense. These should be accounted for through