FrontAccounting forum — Foreight Exchange Gain

Re: Foreight Exchange Gain

2010-04-20T05:23:00Z

maybe a button to click to make it semi automatic

Re: Foreight Exchange Gain

2010-04-19T21:56:47Z

Hello again,
In version 2.3 we will implement the revaluation as an option to do it manually and also do it on a special Journal Entry.
Yes the wiki need to be updated.

/Joe

Re: Foreight Exchange Gain

2010-04-19T15:53:11Z

ok now that i have made all the posts i clearly understand how it works, and work it does.
at times it is a few cents out. max of 20 cents out. not sure why.
as you said it is

exchange_variance = (old_rate-current_rate)* account_balance.

OR probably easier to understand

Take your GBP balance in your bankaccount and multiply it with the exchange-rate from the last day of transactions. This should give the same balance as in the GL account.

I couldn't find a sticky or wiki on this topic so perhaps do one to explain how it all works.

Re: Foreight Exchange Gain

2010-04-18T22:06:06Z

Thanks slackie, glad you sorted it out

/Joe

Re: Foreight Exchange Gain

2010-04-18T15:22:43Z

Yes! It works just fine if I enter the GBP payments in sequentially by date as they appear on the bank statement. No extra exchange variance entries are coming up at all now that I am entering them in sequence.

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Re: Foreight Exchange Gain

2010-04-18T14:13:17Z

ok i didn't get it before re: the account balance. so if the payments/deposits are not entered sequentially that could cause the numbers above?

i will void all the payments / deposits and enter them sequentially and let you know how that goes.

Re: Foreight Exchange Gain

2010-04-18T13:33:10Z

Please, Slackie, do the following check (I also asked you that in my former answer).
Take your GBP balance in your bankaccount and multiply it with the exchange-rate from the last day of transactions. This should give the same balance as in the GL account.
Please tell me if this is the fact.
If this is not the fact, we will have to investigate it further.

/Joe

Re: Foreight Exchange Gain

2010-04-18T12:19:52Z

The last two postings in fact does not depend on transaction amount, but on exchange differences and actual currency account balance:

exchange_variance = (old_rate-current_rate)* account_balance.

As I said, automatic posting of exchange variances on every currency transaction can be misleading, but above posting are probably entirely right.

Janusz

Re: Foreight Exchange Gain

2010-04-18T10:07:32Z

Hi,

I am not using the GL account 1210 for any journal entries. It only has bank deposits and payments into it including the the opening balance. In addition GL account 1210 has one GBP bank account assigned to it.

Regarding your 2nd paragraph 'Be aware of the transaction date', I am not sure if I understand it, but in my example below I made a bank payment entry for GBP 39.47. I put the date in as the 9th feb which was when the payment was made, and the GL transaction details came out as below. I understand the 61.61 is the USD equivilant of GBP 39.47, which I guess makes the rate on the date GBP 1: USD 1.56. That's fine. It's just the bottom two automatic extra GL transaction details of 980.58 which seem incorrect.

5030 Hosting / Domains 61.61
1210 Lloyds GBP Account 61.61
1210 Lloyds GBP Account 980.58 Exchange Variance
4920 Foreign Exchange Gain 980.58 Exchange Variance

I also posted that exact same bank payment a couple of weeks earlier and it gave totally different results, which also seem incorrect. Below is the GL transaction details of that.

5030 Hosting / Domains 61.61
1210 Lloyds GBP Account             61.61
1210 Lloyds GBP Account 147.58    Exchange Variance
4920 Foreign Exchange Gain       147.58 Exchange Variance

As you can see the conversion of GBP 39.47 to USD 61.61 stays the same, which is fine, but then the bottom two automatic extra GL transaction details of 146.58 seem incorrect, and are totally different to 980.58

Re: Foreight Exchange Gain

2010-04-14T12:57:33Z

Hello slackie,

Are you using the GL account 1210 in Journal Entries for other entries? In that case I can understand the problem.
One should never use the bank accounts in Journal Entries except for entry of Open Balances.

Be aware of the transaction date.
You can now make a test by looking at the transaction date balance in GBP in the bank account and compare to the balance in the GL account by the same date. By using the exchange rate as the transaction date you should get the correct balances in the GL account.

I have tried a while without reproducing any errors? I will continue:

/Joe

Re: Foreight Exchange Gain

2010-04-14T12:36:22Z

Yes, maybe we should remove the Revaluation into a specific GL Journal to separate the operations and call it 'Revaluation of currencies'.

But I will do another test if there are problems with the revaluation.

/Joe

Re: Foreight Exchange Gain

2010-04-14T10:14:58Z

I don't know what is 1210 amount at the moment of above posting, so it can be right anyway. If you have 98.000 in GBP in Lloyds Bank and there is change of 1 cent in exchange rate, the result in exchange variance is post on amount 980 USD. This is right, although I see no reason why it is appended to the post just issued , and not added as separate bank resources revaluation post.
In example above in fact the revaluation has nothing to do with Hosting/Domains payment itself.
Janusz

Re: Foreight Exchange Gain

2010-04-14T07:34:36Z

The balances of the currency accounts will mirror the correct balance in the underlying GL accounts.
There must be something else making these problems.
We will consider a disable flag on a per company base for release 2.3.

/Joe

Re: Foreight Exchange Gain

2010-04-14T05:40:04Z

another example of an actual post to a GBP account in out USD based accounts. The amount was entered today as GBP 39.47 and the date of the transaction entered was 9th Feb 2010. Below is what happened in USD.

5030 Hosting / Domains 61.61
1210 Lloyds GBP Account 61.61
1210 Lloyds GBP Account 980.58 Exchange Variance
4920 Foreign Exchange Gain 980.58 Exchange Variance

As you can see the foreign exchange gain has no bearing on the changes in the GBP:USD at that time or since then.

Re: Foreight Exchange Gain

2010-04-14T04:52:08Z

It seems the amounts it posts to the foreign exchange gain are incorrect. From my understanding of what you are saying, in my example above it would mean the change in the curreny rate between USD and GBP was 100% (or 1:1 to 2:1) which did not happen?

Also is there a way to stop the foreign exchange gain from automatically being posted, and then I can manually revalue it when I choose.?