Contents of the Manage Period Exchange Rates Screen

Use the fields and options to configure the Manage Period Exchange Rates screen.

Period Rate Group Information

Field Description
Rate Group ID

Enter, or click to select, the rate group, or use Lookup to select the ID. This is a required field.

Fiscal Year

Enter, or click to select, the fiscal year.

Period

Enter, or click to select, the fiscal period.

Rate Source/Period

Field Description
Rate Source

This field displays the rate source that is currently assigned to this rate group on the Manage Exchange Rate Sources screen.

Period Start Date

This field displays the period start date based on the fiscal year and period you specified.

Period End Date

This field displays the period end date based on the fiscal year and period you specified.

Table Window

Click on the table window toolbar to start a new row.

Field Description
Currency From

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.

Currency To

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.

Period-End Rate

Enter the exchange rate to be used for period-end currency conversion.

Period-Avg Rate

Enter the exchange rate to be used for period average currency conversion.

Historical Rate

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.

Weighted Average Historical Rate

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.

Notes

You can enter a note of up to 254 alphanumeric characters for the exchange rate.

Currency From Name

This column displays the formal name of the currency in Currency From.

Currency To Name

This column displays the formal name of the currency in Currency To.

Add Inverse Line

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.)