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Countries usually peg their currencies to maintain stability for investors, who don't want to worry about fluctuations in the currency's value. If a currency's value drops, for example, the value of the investment would drop as well.

Central banks hold reserves of foreign currencies and bonds to help protect against sudden or painful declines in the value of their own currency. Typically, these reserves are held in major international currencies like the U.S. dollar, the British pound and the euro.

Foreign Exchange Accounting covers the accounting of the transactions which are carried by a business in different currencies (Foreign currency) other than functional currency, and records such transactions in the functional currency of the reporting entity, based on the exchange rate in effect on the date of ...

Manually record the Invoice payment in the customer's currency (say GBP) to the Undeposited Funds account. Provide the appropriate exchange rate for customer's currency and base currency while recording the payment. Now, the Undeposited Funds will have the payment amount in the base currency (USD).

Central banks and governments can intervene to help stabilize a currency by selling off reserves of foreign currency or gold, or by intervening in the forex markets. Currency crises have occurred throughout modern history, most notably in Asia and Latin America during the 1990s.

In a fixed exchange rate system, a country's central bank typically uses an open market mechanism and is committed at all times to buy and sell its currency at a fixed price in order to maintain its pegged ratio and, hence, the stable value of its currency in relation to the reference to which it is pegged.

A currency's strength is determined by the interaction of a variety of local and international factors such as the demand and supply in the foreign exchange markets; the interest rates of the central bank; the inflation and growth in the domestic economy; and the country's balance of trade.

The NetSuite Multi-Currency feature supports several record types in the system, including vendor, customer, and account (bank accounts, GL, etc.) records.