Chapter 11. Multiple Currencies

Table of Contents

11.1. Basic Concepts
11.2. Account Setup
11.2.1. User-Defined Currencies
11.3. Recording/Updating Currency Exchange (How-To)
11.3.1. Manually Updating Exchange Rates
11.3.2. Automatic Updating Exchange Rates (How-To)
11.3.3. Disabling Exchange Rate Retrieval
11.4. Recording Purchases in a Foreign Currency (How-To)
11.4.1. Purchase of an asset with foreign currency
11.4.2. Purchasing foreign stocks
11.5. Tracking Currency Investments (How-To)
11.5.1. Purchasing a currency investment
11.5.2. Selling a currency investment
11.6. Reconciling Statements in a Foreign Currency (How-To)
11.7. Putting It All Together (Examples)
11.7.1. Basic scenario
11.7.2. Configure Accounts
11.7.3. Opening Balance
11.7.4. Purchase a house
11.7.5. Purchasing Stock
11.7.6. Get the online quotes
11.7.7. Lending money to a friend
11.7.8. Buying property in New Zealand with a loan from Japan
11.7.9. Whats next?

This chapter will show you how to setup your GnuCash accounts to use multiple currencies.