On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 00:14 Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, can you not post a CAD invoice to an A/R account
> that is set for USD?
>
> I would have thought that GnuCash would have done the conversions for you.


I don’t think you would actually want to do this. The delay between posting
the invoice and receiving a payment leaves a huge potoetmtial for
discrepancy between any conversion done at post time and the conversion
done at the time of deposit.

I have several A/R accounts now, but wires from my clients all go into an
account in my home currency.. so when I do the payment I just enter the
conversion rate that my bank gave me at deposit time and it all balances
out without having to go back and correct anything after the fact.


>
> Thankfully, I don’t have that problem (yet) but my first inclination would
> be to do just that: maintain MY A/R account in my home currency but invoice
> customers in their home currency. I don’t see why it would be any different
> than any other transaction posted into an account with a different currency
> default. Perhaps I’m misunderstanding something.
>
> But if you can do as I suppose, you could eliminate the complication of
> extra accounts and the placeholder issue and just use the A/R account as
> normal. (save for the conversions done for foreign billing and the
> conversion on several reports)
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Jun 1, 2018, at 8:39 AM, Matthew Pounsett <m...@conundrum.com> wrote:
> >
> > A short aside.. I think there may still be a bug here.
> >
> > Even though Assets:Accounts Receivable is set to Placeholder, it gets
> > offered as a choice for posting to when I'm posting an invoice... only
> when
> > I try to post to it I get an error that I'm trying to post to a
> placeholder
> > account.  It should probably be excluded from the list of choices.
> >
> > I'll add that to the bugtracker.
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