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Accounting: Chapter 7
Accounting for the Effects of
Changes in Foreign Exchange
Rates
1. Introduction
2. Types of foreign exchange rate management regimes
3. How exchange rates are quoted
4. Types of foreign exchange rate exposures
5. Concept of functional currency
6. Foreign currency transactions of a stand-alone entity
7. Translation of foreign currency financial statements
8.
8. Special issues
Special issues in
in translation
translation
1. Introduction
2. Types of foreign exchange rate management regimes
3. How exchange rates are quoted
4. Types of foreign exchange rate exposures
5. Concept of functional currency
6. Foreign currency transactions of a stand-alone entity
7. Translation of foreign currency financial statements
8. Special issues in translation
9.
9. Evaluation of
Evaluation of translation
translation approaches
approaches
• Apply the closing rate method when translating from the subsidiary’s
functional currency to the parent’s presentation currency