Example: T-Accounts for Alternate Currency Receipts
These t-accounts describe how transactions move in and out of accounts when an alternate currency receipt is involved. The t-account entries are for a foreign currency invoice (500.00 CAD), the domestic side of the invoice (313.44 USD), and an alternate currency receipt (347.33 EUR).
These exchange rates apply:
Exchange rate (invoice date):
1 CAD = 0.62688 USD
Exchange rates (receipt date):
1 CAD = 0.69466 EUR
1 EUR = 0.9024271 USD
The alternate currency entries are EUR.