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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.

Suppose that the EUR/USD exchange rate is 1.20 and you'd like to convert $100 U.S. dollars into euros. Simply divide the $100 by 1.20. The result is the number of euros: 83.33. Converting euros to U.S. dollars means reversing that process: multiply the number of euros by 1.20 to get the number of U.S. dollars.

Key Takeaways The reporting currency is the currency in which a company will report its financial statements. A reporting currency must be one currency, which makes it easier to understand and follow financial documents.

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.

Recording Foreign Exchange Transactions It means that all transactions carried out in foreign currencies must be converted to the home currency at the current exchange rate when the business recognizes the transaction.

The accounting currency may also be called the reporting currency. The accounting (reporting) currency is not necessarily the same as the functional or transactional currency. The functional currency is what employees and customers use when conducting a transaction, such as a sale.

How to activate multi-currency in Tally. ERP 9? Follow the direction: Gateway of Tally > F11 Features. > F1 Accounting features. In Accounting feature screen Enable Allow multi-currency: Yes. Press enter and save the screen.