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Thanks. Makes it difficult to deal with bonds in foreign currencies,
doesn't it? I could simply use the real current price * the current
exchange rate as the price, but then I couldn't have money track
exchange rates, nor could I ignore the fluctuation in bond prices.

In microsoft.public.money, Ken Cooper wrote:

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The price of a bond is entered as a percent of par/face. The
Quantity box holds the price. The Total is the total. I am not sure
this is going to help, but I thought that this could explain some
behavior.

I'm using Money 2004, and having a problem trying to enter bond
purchases in a foreign currency.

I'm doing so in a dollar based account. When I enter the bond as a new
investment, I go through the process of marking it as an "other bond",
and set the country appropriately. When I try to enter the price of
the bond, it shows it in dollars. Online help suggests I should be
able to right click on the price field and get a currency converter,
but I only see the usual cut/copy/paste commands. I do, however, get a
currency converter dialog if I hit F8, but it appears to think the
bond is in dollars (it shows dollars to dollars, but no other currency
options). I have tried this with a few different countries.

Is this a bug? Any ideas on how to fix this or work around it?

Thanks in advance,

Ken Cooper