One amount, three currencies, no mystery

A translated number with no rate attached is an artifact, not an answer. This page keeps the deal’s amount, the dated rate, and the converted figure on the same line, multiplying exactly, so currency questions end at the line that raised them.

RuleCarry every foreign line in three views: transaction currency, functional currency, and reporting currency, with the rate and its date on the line.

Neverstore only the translated amount. A converted figure with no rate and no original is unauditable the day anyone asks how it was computed.

One amount, three honest views. The rate on the line is what keeps the translated number an answer instead of an artifact.

◆ Two May lines, translatedamount times rate, exact and shown.

Line	Transaction	Rate	Functional
UK services invoice	GBP 100,000.00	1.274	127,400.00
EU license fee	EUR 50,000.00	1.082	54,100.00
Functional total, may			181,500.00

Each functional amount is the transaction amount times the dated rate, exactly, and both stay on the line forever. The pattern is the same one-amount-qualified discipline the SAP catalog applies to currency types and ledgers, wearing Workday’s vocabulary. Sample values are illustrative, never client data.

◆ The owned answerthree columns, one line, no mystery.

The GL star’s line fact carries transaction amount and currency, rate and rate date, and functional amount as separate columns, with reporting translation derived the same visible way. Retranslation at a new rate is a new dated column set, never an overwrite, so every translated figure can always answer how.

Use case

Problem

Translated figures circulate with no rate, no date, and no original amount, and every audit or dispute starts by reconstructing how a number was converted.

What we build

Every foreign line carrying transaction, rate, rate date, and functional amount as columns, with retranslations dated beside the originals.

What you get

Converted numbers that explain themselves: the original always visible, the rate always dated, and currency questions answered by reading the line instead of an investigation.

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Terms on this page

GL: General ledger, the books this module lands and proves.
SAP: The sibling platform whose currency discipline this page mirrors.
transaction currency: The currency the deal was booked in.
functional currency: The entity’s home currency for its books.
reporting currency: The consolidation currency of the group.
rate date: When the rate was taken; on the line, always.
retranslation: A new dated conversion kept beside the old one.