[Kmymoney] Reports/Currency problem

[Shane Rice]

Ok, I found out how to accomplish what I need to do, however it is 
extremely labor intensive!  I'm sure there is an easier way, but I don't 
know it.  First things first on the home page.  I found out that on the 
home screen to get it to report correctly, I have to edit: Tools -> 
Prices and it has to go both ways, for example.  USD to PEN was already 
in there, online quote is very nice, shows up at 2.71.  However in order 
to get things reported correctly, I have to also ad PEN to USD which is 
something like .369.  Once I did that, my home page was updated 
correctly.  However all my transactions in my Soles account have to be 
hand edited???  There are literally thousands, as I imported the entire 
year's worth!  I'm thinking since I updated this, I may try and 
re-import just that file and see if it would be easier to go that route, 
or remove all of them, and import them, and hope it grabs the price on 
the way by.

Shane

On 11/03/2011 06:35 PM, Jack wrote:
> Shane,
>
> This is to you, not the list.  I've been doing most of the 
> documentation for KMyMoney for the past two years or so, and since I 
> only use a single currency (US$) I haven't done anything with the 
> section of the manual regarding that area.  Once you solve all your 
> problems (with the help of the mailing list) I would appreciate it if 
> you could provide me with any specific suggestions regarding improving 
> the manual - specifically on setting up/importing data from another 
> program, and any particular areas a user should be extra careful with.
>
> Thanks a lot for any suggestions.
>
> Jack
>
>
> On 2011.11.03 19:21, Shane Rice wrote:
>> Ok, sorry for my complete ignorance on all this.  I have finally got 
>> all my accounts setup, and I think something isn't right.  I live and 
>> work in Peru, so my day to day expenses are all in PEN.  However my 
>> reports all have to be filled out in US$.  So I have one cash account 
>> (Soles in PEN) and all the rest of my accounts are in US$.  When I do 
>> my report, it mixes the PEN with the $ and throws off the report.  So 
>> I must be missing something.
>>
>> I also noticed on the home page it reports Soles as though it is US$ 
>> even though it says PEN, it calculates the total as though it were a 
>> 1=1.    Admittedly when I imported my accounts it was a quite a bit 
>> of work, and I opened the .kmy file with a text editor, and manually 
>> changed the 'Soles' cash account to PEN, that was because all the 
>> amounts were in Soles, and I couldn't change it from within the 
>> program.  My question is this: When working with two currencies, 
>> shouldn't one currency be recorded in that currency?  I read the 
>> chapter on working with currencies, but it doesn't really explain 
>> much.  It doesn't explain how to enter a transaction in a foreign 
>> currency.  I would greatly appreciate any help with this, because I'm 
>> having a difficult time understanding how this is supposed to work.  
>> I do have version 4.6 installed.
>>
>> Let me give a small example of how I think it should work:
>>
>> Home Page view
>> Cash Account $10
>> Soles Account PEN  10
>> Total Assets - $13                   (1USD=3PEN in this simplistic 
>> example)
>>
>>
>> Mine is showing like this:
>> Home Page
>> Cash Account $10
>> Soles Account PEN 10
>> Total = $20
>>
>> I really appreciate any help offered in this as I really need to get 
>> this fixed!  Thanks!!!
>>
>> Shane
>>
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