Changing from a Non-Currency to a Multicurrency Environment

This chapter provides an overview of non-currency and multicurrency environments and discusses how to update domestic currency codes.

Understanding Non-Currency and Multicurrency Environments

If you have been using JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software without multicurrency activated and are now changing to multicurrency processing, review and complete the items in the Prerequisites. Upon completing them, complete the task Updating Domestic Currency Codes to update all existing transactions from a blank currency code to a valid currency code. Finally, after updating the domestic currency codes, you must complete three additional tasks. Then you can begin working in a multicurrency environment.

Prerequisites

Before you complete the tasks in this chapter:

• Select a method for converting amounts from one currency to another, and specify that you allow journal entries between companies that have different base currencies.

  See Setting Up Multicurrency Constants.

• Specify the currency code for each currency that you want to use.

  See Setting Up Multicurrency Constants.

• Decide whether you will use currency restatement and, if so, which method you will use.

  See Understanding Currency Restatement Methods.

• Decide whether you will maintain account balances by currency.

  See Setting Up Constants for General Accounting.

• For each company in the organization, specify the currency code, the restatement method, and whether you will maintain account balances by currency.

  See Setting Up Companies for Multicurrency Processing.

• Review the ledger types in user-defined code (UDC) tables 09/LT and 09/LA.

Decide whether you want to set up any additional ledgers and whether the additional ledger should contain only one currency.

• Specify the general ledger accounts that will accept only transactions in a specific currency and assign the currency code to the accounts.

• Set up multicurrency AAIs.

  See Setting Up Multicurrency AAIs for General Accounting.

• Enter the initial exchange rate between the company domestic currency and all other currencies that you have defined.

  See Setting Up Exchange Rates.

• Create an exchange rate that is not quoted in a financial publication.

  See Setting Up Currency Cross-Rate Relationships.

• Assign currency codes to the customers and suppliers to specify the currency of their invoices and vouchers.

  See Assigning Currency Codes to a Customer Record.

  See Assigning Currency Codes to a Supplier Record.

Updating Domestic Currency Codes

This section provides an overview of domestic currency code updates and discusses:

• How to run the Load Domestic Currency Code programs.

• After you run the Load Domestic Currency Code programs.

Domestic Currency Code Updates

To change to multicurrency processing, you must run the Load Domestic Currency Code programs to update all existing transactions with a valid (not blank) currency code. Prior to running these programs, all records must have a blank currency code. The program will not finish if any records have a currency code.

To update existing transactions with a currency code, you run the Load Domestic Currency Code program for each system that you use. These batch programs also update the mode for each transaction and print an error report if either of these situations exist:

• A company does not exist in the Company Constants table (F0010).

• A company does not have a domestic currency code.

  To assign a currency code to a company, use the Company Names & Numbers program (P0010).

  Note. Do not run the Load Domestic Currency Code programs if you activated multicurrency processing when you initially set up JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software.

Running the Load Domestic Currency Code Programs

Select Multi-Currency Advanced Operations (G1131), Load Domestic Currency Code.

This table lists the Load Domestic Currency Code programs and the tables that they update:

After Running the Load Domestic Currency Code Programs

After you run the Load Domestic Currency Code programs to update transactions with valid currency codes, you must:

• Determine whether you need to run the Update Display Decimals program.

  See JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.98: System Administration Guide

• Repost the account ledger to update the currency code fields in the F0902 table.

  See Reposting the Account Ledger and Recalculating a Fiscal Year.

• Close the fiscal year to update the balance forward fields in the F0902 table.

  See Closing the Fiscal Year.