Accounting Finance:Exchange Rates

Overview

• Through the Balance/budget enquiry you can obtain information on balances and budgets for accounts and summary identities, according to any of the user-defined levels on which they are stored in the system.
• The result from your balance enquiry may be analyzed on two different levels:

1. The first level is a total of an account combination displayed per period.
2. The second level displays the detailed transactions that build up your balances.

Working with Exchange Rates

• Under Enquiries (blue side panel)

1. Select Balances and budgets OR select Enquiries
2. Type Balances under search argument and click enter
3. Mark Balances and budgets and click enter

• The system displays all the key fields for your last used template. If you want to select a different template select templates or click F7.

1. Enter your selection:

• Main
• Cost

1. Click F4 to view list of all the valid key values.
2. Click F1 to view the length and type of the key values.
3. Click F10 to view the description of the entered key values.
4. Click enter to view the balances for your selected key values.

Actual vs. Budget

• Click F10 to view the G/L transactions this balance was built up from.
• Note: the F10 is only available if the account parts have entered values.
• Tip: Click F6 to receive a condensed display. This means you that you will view the key fields and the balances on the same panel.
• If you want to return to the normal display mode click F6 again.
• Tip: Click F12 to toggle between different columns.

• If you want to view more detailed information on a transaction, you can mark the transaction and click Details (in the G/L transaction enquiry)
• Select Document or click F10 to view document (document details do not always exist).
• Click enter
• Select Entire Voucher or click F2

Exercise #1

• Enquiry on general ledger 210000 and drill down to access information on a more detailed level.