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Re: Changing the default currency



On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Maanus Kask <..hidden..> wrote:
>
> Devaluation is not wanted in Estonia, but this risk stays. In this
> case it is still better to do books in EEK.
>
> This leads me to a question:
> Is it very difficult to write a query or smth to change all
> "values" ("default" currency values) in the database - f.ex. divide all
> with 15.656?

That is not hard, but I would want to make sure there are no other
accounting issues to be had there.  And I would expect that you would
ABSOLUTELY want your old data prior to the conversion to be available
in a second database for auditing purposes.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers