Currency accounts for revaluation and translation

Currency gain/loss default accounts, also known as currency accounts, are required for currency revaluation and translation. Currency accounts are defined as part of the System Accounts setup. You must have at least one account for unrealized gain and loss, and one account for translation gain and loss. You can use separate accounts for gain and for loss.

Currency accounts are used in each chart of accounts. Summary and posting accounts can be overridden depending on your reporting basis requirements

  1. Select Financials > Global Ledger > Setup > Finance Enterprise Group > Maintenance.
  2. Open the finance enterprise group and click the Chart tab.
  3. Open the chart and click the Hierarchy tab.
  4. Open the account to change the currency account.
  5. On the Currency Account tab, update the accounts used for revaluations and translations for this chart.
  6. Click Save.