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- Any entity you deal with in a foreign currency - all transactions will be in that currency
- Your GL is always in local currency
- So transactions are always converted using the exchange rate to local currency
- Transactions will have their own exchange rate
- Reconciling transactions with different exchange rates (payment to invoice or credit note to invoice etc) will result in a realised gain or loss journal being created
- Bank accounts may have no transactions - however due to exchange rate movements you may need to revalue the local currency equivalent in the system
- Exchange rates can be maintained centrally and will default onto transactions - however they may be overwritten at the transaction level.
- Bank Reconciliation is in the foreign currency
- When creating Journals from the bank reconciliation screen > the FX value is fixed based on the value on the bank statement upload
- Changes
- If the FX Rate is changed:
- If the journal has a bank account and has been cleared in a bank rec then the amount of the bank account currency will be preserved and the otherĀ currency amount will be recalculated using the changed FX Rate.
- Otherwise the user will be asked if the local or foreign currency amount should be recalculated.
- If the local currency amount is changed:
- If the journal has a foreign currency bank account and has been cleared in a bank rec then the FX Rate will be recalculated.
- Otherwise the user will be asked if the foreign currency amount or the FX Rate should be recalculated.
- If the foreign currency amount is changed:
- If the journal has a local currency bank account and has been cleared in a bank rec then the FX Rate will be recalculated.
- Otherwise the user will be asked if the local currency amount or the FX Rate should be recalculated.
- If the FX Rate is changed:
Selling or Purchasing in a foreign currency
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