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Название: QuickBooks Online For Dummies

Автор: Elaine Marmel

Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited

Жанр: Программы

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СКАЧАТЬ on the Multicurrency feature

      You can change your home currency from the same place that you enable the Multicurrency feature. Follow these steps:

      

Once you turn on the Multicurrency feature, you cannot change your home currency. And, you can’t turn off the Multicurrency feature because it affects many accounts and balances in QBO.

      1 Choose Gear ⇒ Account and Settings.QBO displays the Account and Settings dialog box.

      2 Click Advanced.

      3 Scroll down to the Currency section.

      4 Set your home currency by clicking the Home Currency list box.Choose the currency of your country. If you’re not in the United States, don’t set the United States as your home currency.

      5 Activate Multicurrency by clicking the green switch (see Figure 3-22).After you turn on the Multicurrency feature, QBO warns you thatYou can’t turn it off, andYou can’t change your home currency.

      6 Select I Understand I Can’t Undo Multicurrency.

      7 Click Save.

      8 Click Done.

Snapshot of turning on Multicurrency.

      FIGURE 3-22: Turning on Multicurrency.

      Setting up currencies

      After enabling the Multicurrency option, you’ll find an option to display the Currencies list if you click the Gear button; the Currencies option appears at the bottom of the Lists section on the Gear menu. Follow these steps to set up the currencies you need to use:

      1 Choose Gear ⇒ Currencies.QBO displays the Currencies page (see Figure 3-23).

      2 In the upper-right corner of the page, click Add Currency.QBO displays a drop-down list.

      3 Select a currency you want to use.

      4 Click Add.QBO redisplays the Currencies page with the new currency added.

Snapshot of the Currencies page.

      FIGURE 3-23: The Currencies page.

      QBO always records exchange rates, shown on the Currencies page, as the number of home currency units needed to equal one foreign currency unit. QBO downloads exchange rates every four hours from Wall Street On Demand, but you can, if you want, provide your own exchange rate. Click the Edit Currency Exchange link beside the rate you want to edit and supply the rate you want to use.

      Using multiple currencies

      Take a brief look at the effects of creating an invoice that uses multiple currencies; creating a purchase transaction for a foreign vendor works in a similar fashion.

      Suppose that you have a customer whose base currency is the Canadian dollar and your home currency is the U.S. dollar. So, in this example, when we refer to the “foreign currency,” we mean the Canadian dollar.

      

At this time, QBO doesn’t support letting either your employees or contractors record time entries (using either the Weekly Timesheet or the Single Time Activity) associated with a foreign currency customer.

Snapshot of assigning a foreign currency to a new customer.

      FIGURE 3-24: Assigning a foreign currency to a new customer.

      Once you save the customer, if you look at the Customer list page, you’ll see the customer listed, and, in the Currency column, you’ll see the foreign currency. Your home currency customers display your home currency.

Snapshot of creating an invoice for a customer who uses a foreign currency.

      FIGURE 3-25: Creating an invoice for a customer who uses a foreign currency.

      FIGURE 3-26: An invoice for a foreign currency customer shows values in both the home and foreign currency.

      

Saving your first sales or purchase document for a customer or vendor using a foreign currency makes QBO automatically establish a foreign currency-related Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable account.

Snapshot of the values on reports appear in your home currency.

      FIGURE 3-27: Values on reports appear in your home currency.

Snapshot of the QBO establishes separate Accounts Receivable accounts for transactions involving foreign currency customers.