Use this screen to enter information for transactions that involve currencies other than your functional currency. When you initialized Costpoint, you selected your company's functional currency in either the G/L Settings screen in Costpoint General Ledger or in the Set Up Company screen in Costpoint System Administration. Do NOT change your functional currency after Costpoint setup.
Use this screen when you are selecting or changing your default transaction currency, but only after you have linked your default transaction currency with its related default rate group in the Maintain Exchange Rate Groups screen. You can also use this screen to select the default lookup for exchange rates and determine which method to use for computation of unrealized gains and losses.
This field automatically displays the functional currency International Standards Organization (ISO) code. The field to the right displays its formal name.
Enter, or use Lookup to select, the three-character ISO code of the default transaction currency. This currency code must have been previously set up in the Maintain Currencies screen. The formal name of the currency is displayed in the field to the right.
Enter, or use Lookup to select, the default rate group. This rate group must have previously been set up in the Maintain Exchange Rate Groups screen. In addition, the Default Transaction selected above must be linked with this rate group in the Maintain Exchange Rate Groups screen. The formal name of the rate group is displayed in the field to the right.
Use this group box to choose your preferred exchange rate lookup. If no checkbox is selected here, Costpoint will use rates entered by date as the basis for exchange rates. You can enter these daily rates on the Maintain Exchange Rates by Date screen and the Enter Daily Rates screen.
Select this checkbox if you want Costpoint to use the "triangulation" method to create a rate between your functional and default currency. If there is no direct rate (relationship) between two currencies, you can create an exchange rate by linking each of them to a third, common rate.
Example: You may not have an exchange rate for your functional currency (Yen) to your transaction curr ency (Rupees), but you do have an exchange rate between each of these and the British Pound. Using triangulation, the system will use the Yen to Pound rate and the Rupee to Pound rate to derive a Yen to Rupee rate.
Enter, or use Lookup to select, the currency code for the intermediate currency that you want to use for triangulation. In the example used above, the British Pound is the intermediate currency. The intermediate currency code must have been previously set up in the Maintain Currencies screen. The formal name of the currency is displayed in the field to the right.
Select this checkbox if you want Costpoint to search for a period rate when a daily rate is not available. You can enter these period rates on the Maintain Exchange Rates by Period screen and the Enter Period Rates screen.
Select this checkbox to allow users to override exchange rates that are entered into the Maintain Exchange Rates by Date, Maintain Exchange Rates by Period, Enter Rates by Date, or Enter rates by Period screens. This allows rates to be overridden during data entry in the Exchange Rates subtask in such screens as Enter A/P Vouchers and Enter P/O Vouchers in Costpoint Accounts Payable or the Enter POs screen in Costpoint Purchasing.
If you select this radio button, Costpoint will compute any unrealized gain or loss by looking only at the currency value change since the last time the currency valuation was made by period. This net change will be calculated period-by-period.
If you select this radio button, Costpoint will compute any unrealized gain or loss by looking at the entire currency value change from the beginning of your fiscal year. Then Costpoint will prepare an automatic reversal to be posted in the following period.
Changes to this screen update the MU_SETTINGS table.