System Administration / ARCHIBUS Administrator - Application Configuration

Updating Converted Amounts

After defining conversion rates for your currencies, you can run an action that updates Amount VAT Expense, VAT Income, Total Income, and Total Expense Amounts in both the Payment and Budget Currencies. You can run this action for all Recurring and Scheduled Costs, or for only costs with due dates after a specific date. When updating scheduled costs, the system uses the conversion rate for the date closest to and prior to the Due Date for the cost record.

Before running this action, you must:

When you run the Update Converted Amounts action, the system:

  1. Asks you to choose whether to update all recurring and scheduled costs, or only recurring and scheduled costs having a Date Due after a date that you enter.

    Note: If you select to update all costs, the system overwrites any amounts calculated using a different exchange rate. If you want to preserve these records, update cost records with a Date Due that is after the last time you entered new exchange rates.

  1. Checks if there is a VAT override value entered for the costs.
  1. The application then updates the following data for the cost record:
  2. Converts these costs from the Payment Currency to the Budget Currency. The application stores these Budget Currency values so that you can generate reports at the organization level that are based on the Budget Currency. The costs are converted according to the exchange rate values you entered in the afm_conversions table using the System Administration / ARCHIBUS Administrator / Define Conversion Rates task.

If some cost records do not have an exchange rate entered for converting the Payment Currency to the Budget Currency, you receive a message that you must update the exchange rate for the currencies used in the cost records before running the Update Converted Amounts action.

If there is an Exchange Rate Override entered for a cost, that value is used. Otherwise, the system gets the conversion factors for the Budget Exchange Rate and the Payment Exchange Rate based on the following:

The system updates the following fields:

Budget Currency with the application parameter (OrganizationCurrency) set by your System Administrator.

Date Used for Payment Exchange Rate: Stores the date used for the Payment Exchange Rate conversion factor. For Scheduled and Actual Costs, the system looks for a conversion rate for the Date Due of the cost record; if a conversion factor for this date is not available, the system uses the conversion factor date that is closest to and prior to the Date Due. For Recurring Costs, the system uses the most recent conversion factor.

Date Used for Budget Exchange Rate: Stores the date used for the Budget Exchange Rate conversion factor. For Scheduled and Actual Costs, the system looks for a conversion rate for the Date Due of the cost record; if a conversion factor for this date is not available, the system uses the conversion factor date that is closest to and prior to the Date Due. For Recurring Costs, the system uses the most recent conversion factor.

Amount Income = Amount Income - Total (Payment) x Budget Exchange Rate

Amount Expense = Amount Expense - Total (Payment) x Budget Exchange Rate

Amount Income - Base (Budget) = Amount Income - Base (Payment) x Budget Exchange Rate

Amount Expense - Base (Budget) = Amount Expense - Base (Payment) x Budget Exchange Rate

Amount Income - Base (Budget) = Amount Income - VAT (Payment) x Budget Exchange Rate

Amount Expense - VAT (Budget) = Amount Expense - VAT (Payment) x Budget Exchange Rate