[moneydance] Changing countries

[Bob Senior]

On 10 Dec 2006, at 13:00, moneydance-info-request at moneydance.com wrote:

> Also, how do other people handle the situation of having a significant
> financial presence in more than one country?  I'm finding myself
> thinking of oldcountry and newcountry as two different financial
> situations, and I've considered splitting my moneydance information
> into OldCountry.md and NewCountry.md.  The advantages seem to be
> mostly in being able to get reports reflecting different areas of my
> life, since at this point some things are split by country (for
> example, I currently only give to charity in OldCountry).  However, I
> don't think that will always be true.  Splitting my finances into two
> files like that also brings up problems of tracking the times when
> money moves from one country to another.
>
> I think writing custom reports for myself would be more valuable in
> the long run than splitting my finances, but I'd love to hear other
> people's input.

I keep one file but have set up two sets of categories:

	- one set for the old country, each category using the old country  
currency, and
	- one set for the new country, each category using the new country  
currency

This works well for me and makes sure I don't lose any historic  
information on cross currency rates and transactions.

Bob Senior