Because it's what it was written to do. Try the closest direct price first
if one exists. If not try with 1 intermediate currency. If not, it fails.
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/maint/libgnucash/engine/gnc-pricedb.c#L2576
On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 at 10:55, Eric Coates via gnucash-user <
Hi
SAP 19 shares @ €102.00 equals €1938.00 @ (€0.89662 = £1) thus value
=£1737.65 *NOT £1831.77*
You avoided answering the question about your recorded EUR-GBP rate.
Mea culpa!
It should have read "€1 = £0.89662" - and I spent over an hour writing that
email! On the bright side the
On 14 November 2020 at 21:23, Eric Coates said:
[...]
> The full details for each share follows:
>
> Airbus
> 114 shares @ €85.56 equals €9753.84 @ (€0.89662 = £1) thus value
> =£8745.49 *NOT £11631.65*
>
> Deutsche Post
> 80 shares @ €38.92 equals €3113.60 @ (€0.89662 = £1) thus value
>
Eric,
Where you went astray in answering before was second-guessing my question: I
asked you to report on specific entries in the price database. As I expected,
you found the problem when you finally looked where I was trying to point you.
The reason that it was a problem is that GnuCash looks
John
Re: "...unfortunately your answers don't completely answer them" and I
thought I'd answered them in excruciating detail! But no matter.
Your additional question sent me looking in the price data base and yes,
indeed, there were some old prices in GBP (from a long time ago and a
long
Eric,
Keep in mind that the calculations are simple multiplications and additions and
as you noted thousands of users don't have a problem with them, so the problem
is bad inputs to those calculations. We need to find the sources of those
inputs and they're most likely in the pricedb. The
John
The heading for the column starting with £15824.56 is "Present(GBP)"
... for the column starting €14805.44 is "Total"
I agree that the bottom three amounts in the first column adds up to
£15824.56
Also
The total value of the three stock in Euro terms (see below) is €14805.44
The price
> On Nov 14, 2020, at 8:28 AM, Eric Coates via gnucash-user
> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I appear to have found a significant miscalculation in GnuCash - no
> disrespect or criticism intended.
>
> The "base currency" I use in my accounts is GBP (£) but I have some
> sub-accounts that are
Hi
I appear to have found a significant miscalculation in GnuCash - no
disrespect or criticism intended.
The "base currency" I use in my accounts is GBP (£) but I have some
sub-accounts that are denominated in Euros (€).
I attach a screen shot of part of my chart of accounts (the two
