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Chapter 4 FOREX Transaction
Chapter 4 FOREX Transaction
1. Sales prices for goods and services are denominated and settled.
3. the currency that mainly influences labor, material and other costs.
Factors that provide evidence of an entity’s functional currency:
Note:
When the above indicators are mixed and the functional currency
is not obvious, management uses its judgment to determine the
functional currency that most faithfully represents the economic
effects of the underlying transactions, events and conditions
once determined, the functional currency is not changed unless
there is a change in those underlying transactions, events and
conditions.
FOREIGN CURRENCY IMPORT AND
EXPORT TRANSACTIONS
1. Transaction date: Record the purchase or sale transaction at
the Local Currency Units using the spot direct exchange rate on
this date.
2. Balance sheet date: Adjust the payable or receivable to its
Local Currency Units, end-of-period value using the current direct
exchange rate.
• Recognize any exchange gain or loss for the change in rates
between the transaction and balance sheet dates.
3. Settlement date: Adjust the foreign currency payable or
receivable for any changes in the exchange rate between the
balance sheet date (or transaction date) and the settlement date,
recording any exchange gain or loss as required.
• Record the settlement of the foreign currency payable or
receivable
EXAMPLE 1
When ethio telecom comes to pay the supplier, it needs to obtain some foreign currency. By this
time, however, if the rate of exchange has altered to 3.55 to 1, the cost of raising €124,250 would
be (÷ 3.55) 35,000. The company would need to spend only 35,000 to settle a debt for inventories
'costing' 35,500. Since it would be administratively difficult to alter the value of the inventories
in the company's books of account, it is more appropriate to record a profit on conversion of 500.
Cash…………………………………………………...10,810.81