[moneydance] FX Rates

[Anthony]

What you describe is making two entries.

You can do this reasonably easily now. Give that you know you began  
with X amount of currency A and and transferred it and got Y amount  
of currency B, you start on the account for A and enter the details,  
including the destination account, the amount you sent, and in the  
exchange rate field, you do Y/X to get the rate. As you to the  
arithmetic, you will see the amount in the destination currency  
reveal itself in grey figures to the right of the calculation (well,  
it did that for me in one of my bank accounts when I tried it just  
now). When you record the transaction, you will get the correct  
amount showing in the account for account B.

The only way I could see you achieving what you want to do is to have  
a separate transaction window that can be called up with three amount  
fields - ORIGIN account, DESTINATION account and ROE, not forgetting  
that the ORIGIN and DESTINATION fields need to have standard drop  
down menus to allow account selection. And ability to account for  
fees on both sides must be there too. You would also need fields in  
the window for the details (Payee, and memo, and category) which  
presumably would by default refer to the entries in the origin account.

Then you would need to write the amount fields in such a way that you  
would enter your starting amount, and then, when you entered an  
amount in either the ROE field, or in the destination account field,  
the remaininig field would automatically calculate.

My 1c worth.

Anthony


On 2006 Jul 23, at 20:31, Jill Lundquist wrote:

>> What I would like would be the ability to just fill in those two  
>> numbers
>> (1.55 and 2.66) in the two fields directly and have the exchange  
>> number be
>> calculated rather than now when you need to fill in the 1.55  
>> transaction
>> amount and then enter the correct exchange rate to get 2.66.
>
> I've been imagining the same thing and was considering writing an
> extension to give you an FX rate knob sort of thing, but just being
> able to enter both numbers would do the job fine and be simpler.  I
> suppose I should ask on the developers' mailing list if this is
> remotely feasible (though I just moved from one country to another and
> unsurprisingly haven't had a lot of time to dedicate to it just now).
>
>        Jill
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