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Foreign Currency Financial Reporting from Euro to Yen to Yuan A Guide to Fundamental Concepts and Practical Applications

Name: Foreign Currency Financial Reporting from Euro to Yen to Yuan
Brand: John Wiley & Sons
SKU: 9781118024423
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Author: Robert Rowan
ISBN: 9781118024423

By Robert Rowan

John Wiley & Sons March 2011

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ISBN-13: 9781118024423
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Publication: March 2011
Format: Hardback , 298 pages
Jurisdiction: International or US ? Countri(es) for reference only

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As the U.S. dollar is displaced as the world’s single reserve currency, and cross-border trade increases, individuals who previously encountered a Yen or a Franc or a Yuan only at their last tourist destination now find themselves at work in a multi-currency environment.

In a multi-currency environment you sit at the complex intersection of economics, currency markets, mathematics, official financial reporting standards, management reporting, computer science, and governmental fiscal and monetary policy. A company could swing from profit to loss without a single change in operations, simply by movement of exchange rates. Further, the calculations to determine the effect of exchange rates can be exceedingly complex.

Robert Rowan’s Foreign Currency Financial Reporting from Euros to Yen to Yuan: A Guide to Fundamental Concepts and Practical Applications is the first book to discuss both the financial and management reporting on which markets and companies rely, and the underlying programming concepts related to data in multiple currencies—and it does so without relying on technical jargon. By focusing on the fundamental concepts, this book allows you to report past transactions accurately and consistently, but also look into the future to forecast and foresee the impacts that changing and volatile exchange rates could have on your business. The basic system requirements for a standard-compliant program are inherent in the text, for the technically inclined reader. It includes real-life case studies that demonstrate the importance of specific concepts, as well as what could go wrong. Written for a wide audience that spans multiple industries and job descriptions, Foreign Currency Financial Reporting is the definitive source to which individuals can turn for a clear, concise, practical understanding of multicurrency environments.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction to Foreign Currency and Exchange Rates.

Who You Are.

What You Know.

A Changing Environment.

Certainty in Uncertain Times.

Notes.

Part I: The Basics.

Chapter 1: Isn't Currency Conversion Just Multiplication?

Conversion.

The First Complication: It's Not Just Multiplication.

From Where Do Exchange Rates Come?

The Market.

A Second Complication: Triangulation.

Triangulation with Cross Rates.

Quotes.

Currencies and Exchange Rates: Highlights of Their Relevance and Recent History.

Burgers and Currency.

Notes.

Chapter 2: Exchange Rate Tables.

Getting from Yen to Euros without Losing Your Way.

The Foundation and Caveats.

Terms and Terminology.

Triangulation and Cross Rates – Redux.

Exchange Rate Tables.

Keep It Simple.

Notes.

Chapter 3: Approximation.

When Mathematics, Computer Science, and Regulations Converge.

The Original Data: Accurate and Precise.

Significant Digits and Scientific Notation.

Precision.

Accuracy.

What Division Means for Computers.

Single Precision and Double Precision Floating Point.

Accuracy, Precision, and Credibility.

Notes.

Part II: Key Concepts and Authoritative Standards.

Chapter 4: What's in a Name?

Standards.

A Brief Background.

IFRS Predominance with an FASB Pedigree.

The Economic Essence: From Names to Definitions.

Functional Currency.

All the Rest.

A Foundation.

Notes.

Chapter 5: The Gold Standard.

Following the Standard for Fiat Currencies.

The Gold Standard for Financial Reporting.

IAS21 and ASC 830: Converged, But Not Identical.

Translation Overview.

Translation – Not Conversion.

Translation of Income and Expense.

Averages.

Simple Translation.

Translation 1: Basic.

Translation 2: Intermediate.

Convenience Translation.

The Standard.

Notes.

Chapter 6: They're Not Synonyms.

Transaction to Translation, Revaluation to Remeasurement.

Transactions and Translation.

Transactions in a Foreign Currency.

Reporting at Balance Sheet Dates.

Remeasurement.

Best of Intentions: Companies' Divergent Paths.

Changing Functional Currency.

Knowledge Worth Having.

Notes.

Part III: Practical Applications (and More Concepts).

Chapter 7: The Intersection.

Interplay of Mathematics, Exchange Rates, Accounting Standards, Economics, and Time.

Time Concepts: PA, PIT, and POT.

The Missing Piece.

Equity and Complex Rates.

Hybrids.

Cash Flow Affected by Exchange Rates.

Negative Exchange Rates.

Intercompany Transactions.

Frequency.

Make the Transformation.

Notes.

Chapter 8: Practical Knowledge.

Things You Should Know.

Exchange Rate Impact: Basic Information.

Analyzing the Exchange Rate Impact.

Constant Currency: A Second Fix.

Improving Constant Currency.

Analysis and Automation.

Multiple Exchange Rate Scenarios.

Constant Year: A Third Fix.

Looking Forward: Beyond the Constants.

Practical Examples or Cautionary Tales.

Financial Reporting and Management Reporting.

Notes.

Chapter 9: Practical Knowledge.

Things You Can Learn.

A Problem at the Source.

Change It – Use It – Analyze It.

Year-to-Date Translation.

Crossing Zero: A Change in Sign.

The School of Experience.

Notes.

Chapter 10: Cumulative Translation Adjustment (CTA).

The Algebraic Plug.

Baggage from the Past: Accumulating the Translation Adjustment.

Recalculating CTA.

Translation Adjustment and Intra-Group Monetary Transactions.

Cumulative Translation Adjustment is not Remeasurement.

A Little Fun with CTA.

Problem Solved.

Notes.

Chapter 11: The Residual.

Redenomination.

Devaluations and Revaluations.

Hyperinflationary Economies.

Euro Adoption.

Non-monetary Assets (Inventory) Measured in a Foreign Currency.

Disposal of a Foreign Operation.

A Simple Forward Contract: Hedging.

Heuristic Approach.

Notes.

Conclusion: Re-invent the Triangle.

Innovate and Advocate.

The Benefit.

Notes.

Appendix A: World Currency Formats and ISO 4217 Information.

Appendix B: Useful Links, and Why They’re Useful.

Appendix C: Exchange Rate Requirements.

Definition of Actual Rates.

Definition of Constant Currency Rates.

Definition of Forecast Rates.

Definition of Views.

Definition of High (USH) and Low (USL) Rates.

Definition of Rates in the Tables.

Glossary.

About the Author.

Index.

About the Author

ROBERT ROWAN, CPA, CITP, is an International Finance Controller at SAS, the world's largest privately held software company. He engages in subsidiary and holding company financial transactions, reviews GAAP and IFRS accounting issues, and conducts financial consolidation and reporting. Previously at SAS, he worked in the SAS Research and Development Division designing and developing the SAS Financial Management product. Prior experience includes positions at a Fortune 500 publicly listed company, a global chemical manufacturer with eighty subsidiaries, a private international software company as part of the initial public offering team, and Ernst & Young LLP.

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