Re: [SL] Foreign currency bank accounts

[Bob G. <bo...@rc...>]

I have been working with this problem too. I really only have one
currency (EUR) for daily and bank transactions, but it would be nice to
have reports in USD periodically.

If you set up your system initially (admin.pl) with the two currencies,
the first one listed will be the default. On an 'Add Transaction' form,
there is a field for 'currency' which is filled in with the default. If
you spin the popup to a different currency (one of those initially
chosen in admin.pl), then the form is refreshed and you get an
additional field which allows you to insert an exchange rate.
Presumably, this field is also filled out with the current EXR if you
implement an on-line exchange rate query.

The Bank info form does not seem to have a currency selection field, and
more importantly, the bank account form does not either. This seems to
be where you are stuck.

It might be good to have a 'default' currency selection for a bank
account. Don't know what the unintended consequences would be though.

Bob G

On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 12:33 +0000, Martin Boese wrote:
> What would be the right way of dealing with bank accounts in different 
> currencies?
> 
> In Angola we unfortunately have to deal with two currencies on a daily basis: 
> Angolan Kwanzas (AKZ) and USD. Also banks, if you open an account, they'll 
> give you two accounts by default. An invoice also can be in either currency 
> and paid with another also by bank transfers.
> 
> We'd like to migrate our SL system (currently only in USD) to multi-currency. 
> First I am looking for a way to define a bank account to be a AKZ account. 
> Then I'd like to be able to pay an invoice from one currency to another.
> 
> Also very useful would be to be able to have GL-Accounts in different 
> currencies, example would be water/lights which we would always pay in AKZ.
> 
> Is there any way to do this, or financially speaking is there another way how 
> to deal with this situation?
> 
> We are using SL 2.8.5.
> 
> Thanks,
> martin
> 
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