What is your functional currency?

by David Haimes (with excerpts from an internal document by Seamus Moran)

Regular readers will probably be used to this answer now... it depends.

In General Ledger 11i your functional currency referred to the currency of your set of books, it was one of your three Cs (Calendar, Currency and Chart of Accounts). In R12 we changed the terminlogy, there is no more set of books that is now renamed Ledger and the Currency of your Ledger is referred to as the Accounting Currency of the Ledger.

This is a subtle change and I'm sure experienced 11i practitioners are still using the term functional currency but you all need to stop because it's confusing people.

In Financial standards (IAS 21 and FAS 52), Functional Currency is a test

What Exchange Rate to use for Intercompany

Leslie posted some excellent comments, which touched on the exchange rates to use on intercompany transactions, a very interesting and complex topic. I have discussed this at length with Seamus Moran many times, he has educated and enlightened me and I use an example of his here.

Consider Top Hat Global Corp

• The group reports to shareholders in Monopoly Money - MYM.


• Subsidiary N is a plant, and is located in Elbonia, where they use the Elbonian Enigmatic Krown, the EEK.


• They sell in all of the EUR countries.


• They ship from the plant to all of the EU countries.