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> On Jul 2, 2020, at 9:39 AM, Adrien Monteleone 
> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> Unless I read the original post wrong, and the OP could clarify, but it looks 
> like they were entering this split in a GBP based account (the GBP bank 
> account) and adding a GBP split for the bank charge.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jul 2, 2020 w27d184, at 11:34 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 2, 2020, at 9:08 AM, Antonio Roberts <anto...@hellocatfood.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm in the UK doing most of my accounting in GBP (£) but in this case
>>> I invoiced someone in EUR (€). Following the advice from here I sent
>>> up a Bank in EUR, invoiced them in EUR and then transferred the EUR
>>> into my GBP Bank with the current exchange rate (my bank supplies the
>>> rate at the time of transaction).
>>> 
>>> However, this conversion incurred a bank charge in GBP. In GNUcash
>>> I've gone to my GBP Bank balance to the transaction line to split it
>>> to deduct the bank transfer. When I do this it's asking me to do a
>>> currency conversion from EUR to GBP.
>>> 
>>> The funds are already in the GBP bank so why am I being asked to do
>>> conversion again? Is there something I've done wrong?
>> 
>> No, you haven't done anything wrong. Every transaction has a transaction 
>> currency that's used to balance the transaction. That currency is determined 
>> by the account from which the transaction is created, and in this case it's 
>> EUR, so GnuCash needs to know the value in EUR of the bank charge. Just use 
>> the same exchange rate that you used to convert the EUR payment to GBP.


Read it again: "That currency is determined by the account from which the 
TRANSACTION IS CREATED." Once the transaction is created its currency is 
immutable. It matters not a whit in what account one modifies it from.

Regards,
John Ralls

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