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A comment on The Double-Entry Counting Method (2016). Parent comment

Re:The Double-Entry Counting Method (2016) by dragonsh on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @04:00AM (#23973461)
You can have multiple reports from beancount at current market rate, at original cost [1], at conversion cost of the commodity of your choice.

[1] https://beancount.github.io/docs/running_beancount_and_gener...

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Re:The Double-Entry Counting Method (2016) by he991z on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:37AM (#23975609)
I mean when using the price system which the author recommends for multi-currency transactions. What you say is possible when using the cost system, but leads to a lot of other complications as it means maintaining an inventory/lots for these transactions, and the documentation also suggests not taking that route.
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