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Functional currency is the currency of the primary economic environment in which the entity operates. Reporting currency is the currency in which financial statements are presented.

Accounting currency is what the legal entity or the headquarters chooses to use for calculating amounts or bookkeeping using a general ledger. It has to pick a unique currency as per the legal entity. Reporting currency is used for operational reporting to the government bodies.

At the date a foreign currency transaction occurs, each asset, liability, revenue, expense, gain, or loss arising from the transaction is recorded in the functional currency of the recording entity using the exchange rate in effect at that date.

You must express the amounts you report on your U.S. tax return in U.S. dollars. If you receive all or part of your income or pay some or all of your expenses in foreign currency, you must translate the foreign currency into U.S. dollars.

You would enter the information on Schedule 1 (Form 1040) Additional Income and Adjustments to Income, Line 8 as an ordinary gain or (loss). To enter a description and an amount for Schedule 1 (Form 1040), Line 8: From within your TaxAct return (Online or Desktop), click Federal.

These transactions are reported on Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs). The federal law requiring these reports was passed to safeguard the financial industry from threats posed by money laundering and other financial crime.

Example of a Reporting Currency In order to produce consolidated financial statements, ABC must first convert the financials of its Japanese subsidiary from yen to dollars, and convert the financials of its French subsidiary from euros to dollars. In this case, U.S. dollars are the reporting currency of ABC.