Quicken Business and Personal - change currency to CDN?

JamesX714

for some reason my reports are showing in US , how do I change the default currency to CDN?

NotACPA

Once a currency is established for an account, it can't be changed. You'll need to create new accounts with CAD.

Chris_QPW

The default currency for reports (the "home currency") for Quicken Windows Canadian should already be CDN unless the data file started out in Quicken Windows US. Is this the case? (unlikely, but people have changed over, so I ask). Note in the US version you can change the home currency, but in the Canadian version you can't, so if one goes from the US to the Canadian version, they have to do that before they switch.

Is this something new?

Has the actual account changed currency?

There are bugs that for some financial institutions if you use Express Web Connect, they can change the currency when it shouldn't.

If none of that applies, I suspect that this has to do with the new custom report dialog. Other people have reported problems with the currency setting in it in the past. And this might be one of the cases where the Canadian version is behind in a fix for it.

What do you see if you select Customize for the Currency?

If the currency selection isn't shown here, try switching to the old interface.

JamesX714

thank you for the response, under Calendar and Currency there is no option for currency .

all my accounts have US$ in front, if I go the account details - currency shows Canadian Dollar

under Edition it does say Canada so not sure how this got messed but it did. What I am finding it that the reports that I need are completely wrong (GST and HST) and I assume this is because of the currency.

Chris_QPW

Did you try switching back to the old report interface?

You can select the "Switch back to old interface" link in the above dialog or select:

Edit → Preferences → Early Access → and deselect Customize Reports

JamesX714

under early reports —- customized reports is allready unchecked. I assume selecting it will do nothing right?

Chris_QPW

I don't remember all the details of what the bug was, so try turning it on and see if that gets you access to the currency setting in the Customize dialog.

JamesX714

no change unfortunately.

While trying to figure this out I started a new file (and showing CDN properly) since I need to file report for Q2 and reenter at least this quarters transactions.

I have AR and AP accounts setup to track HST but when I invoice (or vendor bill) the tax column's are not showing up (see attached) but are clearly showing in the customize screen?

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Chris_QPW

Unfortunately, once you are in the domain of "business" I can't help you because I don't use that edition.

Maybe someone else can. You might also want to post it as a different question to give it the proper attention, since others might have already read this thread as a "currency" one and not read down to this new problem.

Chris_QPW

BTW in the old file you should try both Validate and Repair, and also see if a backup of that file might be OK if this problem just started recently.