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Understand the currency on a journal draft

Prepare the entry in the company's supported reporting currency.

Updated 2026-11-11

The manual journal editor shows the currency of the request or the company's current book settings. All lines in one entry use that currency. A bank statement or supplier document in a different currency does not make the draft a mixed-currency journal.

Before entering amounts, compare the displayed currency with the supporting calculation. Where a conversion or adjustment is needed, use the treatment approved for the company's books and retain the calculation that explains the resulting reporting-currency amount.

The journal validator supports reporting currencies with zero or two decimal places. Use plain numbers with the permitted precision. A currency that the native journal workflow does not support produces an explicit error rather than an assumed conversion.

Changing a currency label in a description does not convert the amounts. If the company's reporting currency or accounting source was configured incorrectly, resolve that setup issue before posting. For an older draft, review the displayed currency again after any book-setting change so the saved adjustment remains consistent with the current company policy.

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