Hi David, Yes, I think I confused you a bit with my description. Just so we're on the same page I'll try.
I've transferred (as an example) €200 to my GBP account and it's now £177. I had a £10 bank charge and so I'm trying to split the £177 but when I do this it's asking me to do a currency conversion. I guess 'cause the transaction I'm splitting originated from a EUR transaction it's asking for a conversion. On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 at 18:11, D. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Antonio, > > I think the point that John and Frank were making is that if you *entered* > the transaction in the EUR account, then it will have EUR as its currency, > and you will be asked to provide an exchange rate for every GBP split that is > subsequently entered, regardless of your current register. When I read your > original post, it looks like you created the transaction while in the EUR > account (you stated "transferred the EUR into my GBP Bank", which strongly > implies this). If this is in fact what you did, then you can either enter the > same exchange rate as John suggested, or enter the transaction from the GBP > account and avoid the subsequent request. > > David > > > -------- Original Message -------- > From: Antonio Roberts <anto...@hellocatfood.com> > Sent: Thu Jul 02 12:44:26 EDT 2020 > To: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> > Cc: GnuCash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Split transaction on invoices in foreign currencies > > > 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. > > Yes, that is correct. I transferred the funds from EUR to GBP account > and in that transaction line in the GBP account I'm attempting to do a > split and it's prompting me about currency conversion. > > As suggested above I could just do a separate line in the GBP Bank > Charges expense account but my preference is to split as it shows > where the charge is inherited from. > > Kind regards, > > Antonio > > On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 at 17:40, 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. > > > > > > Regards, > > > John Ralls > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > -- > ============================ > anto...@hellocatfood.com > http://www.hellocatfood.com > ============================ > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- ============================ anto...@hellocatfood.com http://www.hellocatfood.com ============================ _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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