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using gnucash for accurate cost basis calculation for foreign investments (cad primary currency)
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you would need to use trading accounts. you can enable this, file->properties->account settings tab, and check use trading accounts. for more details see the following site: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/trading_accounts
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