[moneydance] How do I enter an investment transaction in a foreign currency?

[Milutin Jovanović]

You pretty much have to have separate accounts for each currency.

Miki.


2009/7/2 Shaun Crossley <shaun at whatever.ca>

> I have created an investment account with "Currency Type" of "Canadian
> Dollar".
>
> How do I enter a purchase of a foreign-currency security?
>
> For example, my trading account at Qtrade lets me purchase both CDN$
> and US$ equities.  The US$ equity transactions are displayed at Qtrade
> entirely in US$.
>
> I have modified the security in question within MoneyDance to use US$,
> however when I try to enter a transaction for that security within the
> CDN$ investment account, I can't enter it in US$.  And when I manually
> convert it to CDN$ by calculating the exchange rate, the history of
> the US$ security is screwed up.
>
> Do I have to set the currency of the security to CDN$ and manually
> calculate the exchange rate for each transaction?  I'd rather have
> MoneyDance do the conversion for me.
>
> Does any of this make any sense? :-)
>
> Shaun Crossley
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