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Re:The Double-Entry Counting Method (2016) on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:11AM (#23973137)
One of the main troubles I have with beancount/fava is their multiple currency behaviour. If I made some income in some foreign currency in say 1995, the amount would be shown to me as converted to my base currency at today's exchange rate, not at the rate that was in 1995 when the transaction actually happened. That makes sense for assets and liabilities, but not for incomes and expenses. The software fundamentally lacks an ability to make this distinction between these two different sets of accounts in this dimension.