Re: [GNC] Feature Request: Add Support for Functional Currency Amount in Transactions

2025-01-05 Thread flywire
So Kevin, you also appreciate the limitation of those powerful features. The suggestion of using PriceDB as the transaction conversion rate is as disingenuous as using the closing price for share transactions. In my view your issue is entering transaction data through the register form. Prepare tr

Re: [GNC] Feature Request: Add Support for Functional Currency Amount in Transactions

2025-01-05 Thread John Ralls
mples of how this feature could be utilized. > Thank you again for your time and consideration. I look forward to your > feedback. > Best regards, > Kevin > 发件人: John Ralls > 发送时间: 2025年1月5日 4:54 > 收件人: Derek Atkins > 抄送: Tian Kevin ; gnucash-de...@gnucash.org > ;

Re: [GNC] Feature Request: Add Support for Functional Currency Amount in Transactions

2025-01-04 Thread John Ralls
I’ve been mulling this for some time, incited by a user who calls himself CDB-Man in the bug tracker and IRC. CDB-Man is a licensed accountant in Vancouver, BC. There’s a lot of discussion in https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797796. I don’t think we need to add anything, just make a sma

Re: [GNC] Feature Request: Add Support for Functional Currency Amount in Transactions

2025-01-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Back around GnuCash 1.4 each split had a home currency / value. It was removed in 1.6. The argument at the time was that if you're holding a handful of, e.g. Mexican Pesos, it doesn't really matter what the USD value was when you acquired them, it only matters what the value is when you need

[GNC] Feature Request: Add Support for Functional Currency Amount in Transactions

2025-01-04 Thread Tian Kevin
Dear GnuCash Development Team, I hope this email finds you well. My name is Kevin as an accountant, and I am a GnuCash user who manages multi-currency financial transactions. I appreciate the powerful features GnuCash provides for personal and business finance management. I am writing to propose