Let’s look at an example of how to accept a foreign-currency check into a local-currency account. Our example uses British pounds. Let’s also assume the exchange rate has changed from 1.65 to 1.80 since you made the original sale.
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Go to the Sales command centre and click Receive Payments. The Receive Payments window appears.
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Select the customer. The currency for this customer card is British pounds, so the Rate button displays GBP. You have received a check from your customer for £5,000 for an outstanding invoice, and you want to bank it in your Canadian chequing account.
Click Rateto check the default currency rate for the British pound to the Canadian dollar. Change the rate from the default rate of 1.65 to 1.8 and click OK.
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Enter £5,000 in the Amount Received field and allocate it to the outstanding invoice.
When you are reconciling your bank statement, the foreign currency transaction amounts listed in your statement will often not match those listed in your company file. This is because the exchange rate used by the bank is different from that recorded in your company file at the time of the transaction.
If you have your security preferences set to allow records to be changed, simply click the zoom arrow () for the transaction in the Reconcile Accounts window to display the original transaction. Click Rateand change the exchange rate to match the bank statement.