Currency Tab of General Company Settings Form

Use the Currency tab of General Company Settings to assign currencies to your companies. These currencies are available in drop-down lists for Currency fields on forms throughout all applications. You can also specify a triangulation currency. This tab only displays if you enabled the Multicurrency feature.

After you select your currencies, you can set up Daily and Period Exchange rates for the currencies.

Contents

Field Description
Enabled Currencies Drop-down

Click the drop-down arrow on a grid header to complete any of the following actions:

  • To print grid data, click Print. On the Print Preview form, click File > Print to send the grid data to your default printer.
  • To export grid data to an Excel spreadsheet, click Export to Excel. When Microsoft Excel opens, use its features to modify, print, or email the grid data, or to save the spreadsheet file locally.
  • To turn on grouping for a grid, click Enable Grouping. When a field displays with the instruction: "Drag a column header here to group by that column," drag and drop column headers into the field, in the sequence that you want them to display.

Not all options are available on all grids.

Code From the drop-down list of all available currencies, select the three-letter code for the currency that you want to add (enable).
Description This field displays the description for the enabled currency.
Functional Currency This field displays the functional currency for the company. You set the functional currency when you first enable the Multicurrency feature and you cannot change it.
Triangulation Currency Select the currency used to perform a triangulation through an intermediate currency, if a direct or inverse exchange rate is not available. See the discussion of "Triangulation Currency and Exchange Rates" in the Concepts help for related information.