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Bug 128771 - Make note that currency accounts should not be used for money transactions
Make note that currency accounts should not be used for money transactions
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Documentation
1.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Chris Lyttle
Chris Lyttle
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-12-08 01:24 UTC by Ben Bucksch
Modified: 2018-06-29 20:39 UTC
See Also:
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Description Ben Bucksch 2003-12-08 01:24:04 UTC 
I tried to use a GnuCash "currency account" for a bank account in a foreign
currency. Made sense to me, but I wasn't able to set the exchange rate, if
I received money on that account and wanted to book it against my EUR-based
income account (e.g. "salary"). The EUR account kept either a 0-value or
the $-value in EUR (i.e. excahnge rate 1), and I didn't find a way to
change it. warlord on IRC told me to use a "bank account", and now it
works. This is not obvious and not documented, please do so.
Comment 1 Ben Bucksch 2003-12-08 01:48:15 UTC 
Bug 128776 is an alternative to this bug.
Comment 2 Andreas Köhler 2006-03-05 13:10:18 UTC 
SVN hides the currency account type for some time now, is this resolved?

Same for bug 128776.
Comment 3 John Ralls 2018-06-29 20:39:28 UTC 
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. This bug has been copied to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128771. Please update any external references or bookmarks.