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Eric Hanchrow's updated currency docs.

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identity.</LINK>
</PARA>
</SECT1>
<SECT1>
<TITLE>How to set up a foreign-currency account</TITLE>
<PARA>All of the above may sound straightforward, but you may get
stumped when you first try to represent some foreign money. Let's
demonstrate how you'd go about setting up an account to represent,
say, French Francs.</PARA>
<PARA>Let's say you have an account that holds cash in US dollars,
and it has $1,000 in it. You want to buy about $100 worth of
Francs, and naturally you'd like to represent those Francs in
their own account. Here's what you need to do:</PARA>
<ITEMIZEDLIST>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>
Create a new account (name it "Francs") of type Cash, with a
currency of FRF (that's the ISO code for French Francs; see
<LINK LINKEND="XACC-ISOCURR">ISO Currency Codes</LINK>, below).
</PARA>
</LISTITEM>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>
Create <emphasis>another</emphasis> account (name it "Trading"), of type
Currency, with a currency of USD, and a <emphasis>security</emphasis> of
FRF. This account will represent <emphasis>trades</emphasis> between the
two currencies, or to be more precise, purchases of Francs
with dollars.
</PARA>
</LISTITEM>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>
Now open the "Trading" account, and enter a transaction that
transfers from your cash account. Put 555 in the "Debit"
column, and 0.18 in the Price column. (GnuCash will offer to
calculate the Value for you; let it do so.) You've now bought
555 Francs for $0.18 apiece.
</PARA>
</LISTITEM>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>
Transfer the 555 Francs that are now in your trading account
into the "Francs" account (by putting "555" in the "Debit"
column). Note that you could not have transferred anything
directly from cash to Francs (try it); those two accounts do not
have a currency in common.
</PARA>
</LISTITEM>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>
Note that your "Trading" account now is a bit screwed up --
the last transaction, transferring 555 francs to your "Francs"
account, didn't record the price of those francs. You can
change the price from 1 to 0.18 to make the balance in the
"Trading" account come out to zero.
</para>
</listitem>
</ITEMIZEDLIST>
<PARA>
Here's what it all looks like once you're done:
<MEDIAOBJECT>
<IMAGEOBJECT>
<IMAGEDATA FILEREF="image/foreign-currency.png">
</IMAGEOBJECT>
</MEDIAOBJECT>
</para>
</SECT1>
<SECT1 ID="XACC-ISOCURR">
<TITLE> ISO Currency Codes</TITLE>

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<ARTICLE ID="XACC-RECNWIN">
<ARTHEADER>
<TITLE>Reconciliation Window</TITLE>
<TITLE>Reconcile Window</TITLE>
</ARTHEADER>
<PARA>The Reconciliation window is used to reconcile a GnuCash account with
<PARA>The Reconcile window is used to reconcile a GnuCash account with
a statement that a bank or other institution has sent you.
</PARA>
<PARA>For example, when you write a check for something, you should enter
the transaction into GnuCash. The reconciliation
(<GUILABEL>R</GUILABEL>) field of the transaction will initially
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(cleared, but not reconciled).
</PARA>
<PARA>At the end of the month, you receive your bank statement,
perhaps including canceled checks. At that point,
you should "reconcile" the account, that is, match your personal
records with the documentation provided by the bank.
</PARA>
<ITEMIZEDLIST>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>Open the reconcile window by selecting
<GUIMENUITEM>Reconcile...</GUIMENUITEM> from the
<GUIMENU>Accounts</GUIMENU> menu of the account's
<LINK LINKEND="xacc-regwin">Register window</LINK>. GnuCash will prompt
you for some information from the statement:
<PARA>Choose <GUIMENU>Reconcile</GUIMENU> from the Accounts menu, and GnuCash will prompt you to
enter the ending balance from the bank statement.
</PARA>
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<IMAGEDATA FILEREF="image/recninfo.png">
</IMAGEOBJECT>
</MEDIAOBJECT>
</LISTITEM>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>Enter the date of the end of the period that the statement covers,
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</IMAGEOBJECT>
</MEDIAOBJECT>
<PARA>The <GUILABEL>Funds In</GUILABEL> and <GUILABEL>Funds Out</GUILABEL>
groups lists all the unreconciled transactions. The
'<GUILABEL>?</GUILABEL>' columns show whether the transactions have
<PARA>The <GUILABEL>Debits</GUILABEL> and <GUILABEL>Credits</GUILABEL>
groups list all the unreconciled transactions. The
'<GUILABEL>R</GUILABEL>' columns show whether the transactions have
been cleared or reconciled.
</PARA>
</LISTITEM>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>Now, examine each item on the bank statement, and look for the
matching item in the Reconcile window.
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</PARA>
<PARA>If the amounts agree, click on the item in the Reconcile window. The
'<GUILABEL>?</GUILABEL>' column will change to '<LITERAL>y</LITERAL>'
'<GUILABEL>R</GUILABEL>' column will change to '<LITERAL>y</LITERAL>'
(reconciled) from '<LITERAL>n</LITERAL>' or '<LITERAL>c</LITERAL>'.
</PARA>
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amounts in GnuCash, and marking off transactions in GnuCash
as they are reconciled.
</PARA>
</LISTITEM>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>At the bottom of the window is a difference field, which
should be $0.00 when you are done reconciling. If it isn't,
then you have either missed transactions, or some amounts may
be incorrect in GnuCash. (Or, probably rather less likely,
<PARA>At the bottom of the "Reconcile" window is a "Difference" field, which
should show $0.00 when you are done reconciling. If it shows some other value,
then either you have missed transactions, or some amounts may
be incorrect in GnuCash. (Or, less likely,
the bank may have made an error.)
</PARA>
</LISTITEM>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>When you have completed marking off all the items on the
bank statement, and when the difference is $0.00, you should press the
<PARA>When you have marked off all the items on the
bank statement, and when the difference is $0.00, press the
<GUIBUTTON>Finish</GUIBUTTON> button on the tool bar or select
<GUIMENUITEM>Finish</GUIMENUITEM> from the
<GUIMENU>Reconcile</GUIMENU> menu. The Reconcile window will close.
<GUIMENU>Reconcile</GUIMENU> menu (the latter method will work
even if your "Difference" isn't $0.00).
The Reconcile window will close.
In the <LINK LINKEND="xacc-regwin">Register window</LINK>, the
<GUILABEL>R</GUILABEL> field of the reconciled transactions will
change to '<LITERAL>y</LITERAL>'.
</PARA>
</LISTITEM>
</ITEMIZEDLIST>

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indicates that a transaction has been reconciled,
'<LITERAL>n</LITERAL>' indicates that it has not, and
'<LITERAL>c</LITERAL>' indicates that it has been cleared, but not
reconciled. When a transaction has cleared, you can change its status
to '<LITERAL>c</LITERAL>' by clicking on its <GUILABEL>R</GUILABEL>
field.
reconciled. You can toggle
the reconciliation status between '<LITERAL>n</LITERAL>' and '<LITERAL>c</LITERAL>' by clicking in the
(<GUILABEL>R</GUILABEL>) field; you can set it to '<LITERAL>y</LITERAL>' by using the <LINK
LINKEND=XACC-RECNWIN>Reconcile Window</LINK>.
</PARA>
<PARA>At the bottom of the account window, there are two running