Price Conversion of Commodities

[Toby]

Hi,

Is this possible on Beancount? I am trying to convert commodities prices.

2021-01-01 * "Purchase 3 Apple"

   Assets:Inventory:Apple     3 Apple @@ 15 USD   ;5 USD per Apple.

   Assets:Cash

I want to know the price of the apples in EUR.

2021-02-01 price EUR 1.50 USD  ; hypothetical example.

It doesn't convert. Is this possible to do on Beancount?

I  also tried it with the plugin "beancount.plugins.implicit_prices" and it doesn't seem to convert the values to EUR.

Thanks

[Patrick Ruckstuhl]

Hi,

There's no out of the box conversion of prices in different currencies.

I created a plugin that will automatically generate commodity prices based on fx

https://github.com/tarioch/beancounttools

e.g.

plugin "tariochbctools.plugins.generate_base_ccy_prices" "CHF"

If your commodity is priced in EUR and you have an exchange rate EUR -> CHF, then this will also add commodity prices in CHF.

There's also some possibilities to do conversions when doing the query.

Regards,

Patrick

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[Toby]

Hi Patrick,

Nice! Appreciate the plugin. The plugin seems to work flawlessly and its exactly what I was looking for.

Thank You,