Unexpected automatic currency gain (loss) accounts

[ries]

Despite working with only one currency in this administration, two (system?) accounts appear.
How do I get rid of these?

[Tut]

Show us your Currencies page under Settings:

These accounts would appear if you have foreign currencies or exchange rates entered.

Also, what version number?

[ries]

As you can see, all are light-blue coloured. They all are “empty”, not used.

[eko]

You need to set the base currency.

[ries]

Like this? Fields were empty, except for the [Decimal places] field.

After filling in the fields, the two currency accounts in the Summary were still present.

[Tut]

Did you ever have a foreign currency bank account that has since been deleted, even if you never had any transactions posted to it? In one of my test businesses, I have the Foreign exchange gains (losses) account, even though there are currently no foreign currencies defined. And a bank account in that businesses that was formerly denominated in a foreign currency shows an Exchange rate field for the (non-existent starting balance):

Real businesses that have only ever had a base currency do not have the forex account. The program behaves as though the automatic account never disappears once it is created, even if it is not needed any longer.

I cannot, however, cause the Unrealized currency gains (losses) to appear. Possibly the explanation is similar, but originates with another tab I have not tried.

Regardless, I don’t believe this should happen. I am putting the topics into bugs and editing the title.

[ries]

For your information, it affected also all my other administrations.

[lubos]

These accounts should show only once you enter your first currency revaluation under Currency Revaluations tab.

Fixed in the latest version (23.11)

[ries]

Thank you @lubos.