[moneydance] changing default currency

[Sean Reilly]

On 12/11/06, Tjalco P. van der Meij <tpm at muridae.nl> wrote:
>
> Hello Jill,
>
> Jill Lundquist wrote:
> > Having moved to a country with a different currency, I'm finding it
> > awkward to have my base currency be the country where I no longer
> > live.  How do I change the base currency?
> >
> >
> Changing the base currency of you accounts is not a problem. in the
> "tools>currencies/exchange rates"  menu you can set the base currency to
> any currency you want. It will then do all reports in that currency.
> To change the currency of specific expenditure and income accounts it is
> safer to make new accounts for each type to avoid apples and pears being
> added somewhere in the system.



I agree completely with Tjalco.  Earlier this year I moved from the US to
the UK and wrote a script to duplicate all of my existing categories in GBP
and then move the old USD categories under a top level account ("US").  It
works great, and the few USD expenses I have now just get categorized as
US:Food:Dining or something similar.

I can try to dig up the script or quickly whip up a new one if you like.

Thanks,
Sean