Understanding the Post Process for Foreign Currency Vouchers

After you enter, review, and approve foreign currency vouchers, you must post them.

When you post foreign currency vouchers, the pre-post for the General Ledger Post program (R09801) retrieves the offset method from the Accounts Payable Constants program (P0000). If the offset method is B (batch), the system verifies that there are no foreign currency vouchers in the batch. If there is at least one foreign currency voucher, the pre-post changes the offset method for the batch to S (pay item) and continues processing. The pre-post does this because you cannot post using offset method B if one or more vouchers in a batch are in a foreign currency.

The voucher post program performs the tasks described in this table, regardless of whether you use multicurrency processing. For information specific to posting vouchers in a multicurrency environment, review the information in the Multicurrency Considerations column of the table:

Task Performed by Voucher Post	Multicurrency Considerations
Selects unposted vouchers from the F0411 table.	None.
Verifies that a corresponding F0911 record exists and that the amounts balance to the voucher amount.	None.
Verifies that the batch has an approved status.	None.
Creates automatic offset entries to credit the accounts payable trade in the F0911 table.	Creates automatic offset entries to credit the accounts payable trade account for the AA (domestic) and CA (foreign) ledgers in the F0911 table.
Detailed currency restatement does not apply to non-multicurrency environments.	Updates the alternate currency ledger (XA) and, if applicable, the YA and ZA ledgers and produces a separate post report if you enter a version of the Detailed Currency Restatement program (R11411) in the processing options.
Updates balances in the F0902 table.	None.
Updates vouchers to a posted (D) status in the F0411 table.	None
Updates corresponding records to a posted status (P) in the F0911 table.	None
Updates the batch control record to a posted (D) status in the Batch Control Records table (F0011).	None