Currency Revaluation Utility

Use the Currency Revaluation Utility to generate realized or unrealized currency gains and losses (due to currency rate changes) for these accounts:

NOTE: This utility should be run prior to creating financial statements.

You can run this utility with or without posting to the respective A/P, PO, or A/R distribution journals. When generating realized gains and losses, the utility includes gain/loss amounts previously posted to the A/P and A/R journals.

Posting realized gains and losses rewrites historical rates in the open transactions. Posting unrealized gains and losses creates the journal entries as reversing entries.

The results grid for the Currency Revaluation Utility includes the following information:

The Foreign Total Amount is the foreign currency transaction amount. The Old Amount is the domestic currency amount converted from the Foreign Total Amount using the old exchange rate (the exchange rate on the transaction prior to revaluing). The New Amount is the domestic currency amount converted from the Foreign Total Amount using the revalued exchange rate. The Cost of Revaluation is the gain or loss amount associated with that particular transaction. The Gain or Loss Amount is the currency gain/loss amount generated for the particular invoice or voucher (total of all associated "Cost of Revaluation" amounts for that invoice or voucher).

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