[moneydance] Two-sided transactions in different currencies

[Dave Saville]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:41:42 +0300, David Kaplan wrote:

>Is it possible to do a two-sided transaction that has different currencies
>in both sides.
>
>For example, to log a transaction of £100 being moved from SterlingAccount
>to DollarsAccount. I then want to be able to put in either the exchange or
>the final value received in DollarsAccount. So the transaction would show as
>'100.00' on one end and '186.67' on the other end.
>
>Is this possible at all?

Yes, do it all the time. But....... Due to rounding type problems it is
very difficult to get the desired result using MDs exchange rate for
those two currencies. Even if you set it just before entering the
transaction. You are only cents out, but still out and changing one of
course affects the other side. However, if you use the exchange rate of
the transaction and set it as 100/186.67 or whatever it is usually
correct.

A *long* time back MD would get the conversions the wrong way around
and I think Sean fixed that, but the above is the only way to get the
exact figures you need.

HTH

-- 
Regards

Dave Saville