Introduction to Transaction Currency
During company creation, the administrator sets a base currency that becomes the default project currency for each project or shell.
When you create a project or shell, you can change the default project currency to any currency listed in the company level exchange rate table.
Note: After creating your project or shell, you add additional currencies to your project or shell as needed.
Depending on the Commitment BP design, during record creation you can select a transaction currency from the list of available currencies in your project or shell. Unifier stores costs in the project currency and uses the active company level exchange rate table for currency conversion.
Transaction Currency in Cash Flow Curves
In the Project/Shell, Summary CBS, and CBS cash flow curves, Unifier displays cash flow costs in the project currency.
By default, Unifier displays Commitment curve cost data in the record transaction currency which is stored in project currency, using the active currency exchange rate table.
As a result:
- If the transaction currency is different from the project currency, you can change the currency view between transaction and project currencies, but you can only edit data in the transaction currency.
The summary curve displays 0 (zero), if:
- The transaction currency is different from the project currency, and
- No exchange rate has been defined.
- If there is a more recent value in the exchange rate table, refreshing the curve will refresh the cost data.
- If the transaction currency is different from the project currency, then the system conducts the exchange rate conversion before rendering the Summary Curves cash flows.
- If the base currency is the only currency used in the company, then the system does not conduct the exchange rate conversion, and the Summary Curves cash flows show the Summary Curves cash flows in project currency which is the same as the base currency.
Switching Between Transaction and Project Currency in Cash Flow Curves
To switch between transaction currency and project currency in a cash flow worksheet:
- Go to your project or shell (User mode).
- From the left Navigator, click the Cost Manager node to expand.
- Click the Cash Flow sub-node to open the Cash Flow log window, or the Cash Flow log.
- Select a curve from the log and double-click the curve to open the cash flow worksheet window. By default the worksheet opens in the transaction currency if different from project currency.
- Use the drop-down currency menu located at the top-center of the worksheet to change currency views. If the transaction currency and the project currency are the same, you will not see the drop-down field. The numbers and curve refresh to display the new currency values.
- In the cash flow window curves list, located on the bottom portion of the window, select a curve and open the curve details window.
- If you selected the project currency view before opening the curve details window, and the curve is in transaction currency, the data will be read only.
- In the details window use the currency menu to switch to the transaction currency. Depending upon the curve set up, you can manually enter data or change the automatically distribution profile.
- When finished, click Save. The cash flow window will refresh with changes.