Use the Manage Period Exchange Rates screen to enter foreign currency exchange rates by period. You can also use this screen to calculate period-average rates if you are tracking daily rates.
You can use this screen at any time, but we suggest that you use this screen immediately after the period ending date in order to use the updated rates in the end-of-period valuation of your transactions.
Enter, or click to select, the rate group, or use Lookup to select the ID. This is a required field.
Enter, or click to select, the fiscal year.
Enter, or click to select, the fiscal period.
This field displays the rate source that is currently assigned to this rate group on the Manage Exchange Rate Sources screen.
This field displays the period start date based on the fiscal year and period you specified.
This field displays the period end date based on the fiscal year and period you specified.
Click on the table window toolbar to start a new row.
Enter, or click to select, the code for the currency that will be translated into another currency. Only those combinations of from/to currencies that were defined for this rate group on the Manage Exchange Rate Groups screen are permitted in this table.
Enter or click to select, the code for the currency into which the currency in Currency From will be translated. Only those combinations of from/to currencies that were defined for this rate group on the Manage Exchange Rate Groups screen are permitted in this table.
Enter the exchange rate to be used for period-end currency conversion.
Enter the exchange rate to be used for period average currency conversion.
Use this field to convert stockholders' equity balance (which is generally paid-in capital + retained earnings) stated in terms of functional currency to another company's balance sheet when consolidating financial statements.
You can use this field when the stockholders' equity balance has a single transaction posted to a particular account. You cannot use this field when this account has multiple transactions posted to the particular account because each individual posted record requires an historical rate that you established on the day of the transaction.
Use this field to convert stockholders' equity balance (which is generally paid-in capital + retained earnings) stated in terms of functional currency to another company's balance sheet when consolidating financial statements.
You can use this field when the stockholders' equity balance has multiple transactions posted to a particular account. This enables you to apply a weighted-average historical rate based on the individual historical rates for each transaction in a stockholders' equity account.
You can enter a note of up to 254 alphanumeric characters for the exchange rate.
This column displays the formal name of the currency in Currency From.
This column displays the formal name of the currency in Currency To.
To create a row for the reverse of a currency conversion, select the existing row in the table window and click the Add Inverse Line button. When you do this, Costpoint creates a new row in the table window with the currencies in Currency From and Currency To reversed. (You can also do this when you click on the Costpoint toolbar.)