GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 98292
Docs for currency trading needed
Last modified: 2018-06-29 20:20:58 UTC
Package: GnuCash Severity: normal Version: 1.7.2 Synopsis: Docs for currency trading needed Bugzilla-Product: GnuCash Bugzilla-Component: Documentation Description: The docs need a section on currency trading added ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-11-12 02:32 ------- Reassigning to the default owner of the component, chris@wilddev.net.
Chris- Is this referring to "Chapter 10: Multiple Currencies"? Or, by "Currency Trading", you are talking about an investment? Buying and selling currencies.
Yeah investment trading of currencies. But this was more a 'anyone who feels like doing currency doc's fix this bug' bug
*** Bug 321329 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Any suggestions to what it should contain? Currency trading, could that be the same as * Doing a currency transfer to another bank account (with another currency), and a service charge. * Manually setting the Exchange Rate, since you will get one specifically from the bank for this transaction * online updates of quotes... * Another currency transfer to another bank account later How to record the Capital Gains? 1) A normal Currency Transaction with the new accurate exchange rate.... ***** not possible to check capital gain/loss 2) Do the reverse currency transaction with the same exchange rate as when you purchased it. Do a second transaction with transfering money between Income:Capital Gain and you bank account?
On second thoughts... Probably do the same as for selling a stock...
Looking at the Tutorial documentation at this time, it appears that this bug's primary point has been addressed, although I am not in a position to determine whether the documentation that now exists meets user needs. Can this be closed?
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