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MR2012, AX2012 and exchange rates for IFRS

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Hi everyone


Currently, the company I work for still uses AX 2009, but we will upgrade within the next 6 months. One of the big improvements we see is exchange rate management in AX. The company operates internationally, has multiple functional currencies and needs to consolidate to IFRS standards. That means that the P&L needs to be converted using the month's average spot rate, the balance sheet needs to be converted using the period-end closing rate and the fixed assets need to be converted using the rate on the date of acquisition, although that last one is somewhat optional.

I know that in AX 2012 you can define many different exchange rates, but in Management Reporter can you do any of the following things:

- per account determine the specific exchange rate you'd want to use. So, in a Trial Balance report in reporting currency, can I set my P&L accounts to be translated using an exchange rate I call P&L Spot, while in the same report I translate my Balance Sheet using an exchange rate I call BS Dec Rate.

- per account determine the specific exchange rate I'd want to use and then aggregate these while loading into MR. For my Total Fixed Assets, for each Fixed Asset account I'd want to use a specific rate at the time of acquisition.

Any examples, advice, lessons learned or clarification points would be greatly appreciated.

Yours

Abaw

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    nunomaia Profile Picture
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    RE: MR2012, AX2012 and exchange rates for IFRS

    If I’m not in mistake, the feature to use a different exchange rate in Management Reporter for each G/L Account was added in AX 2012 CU2.

    You can also check the whitepaper Microsoft AX 2012 Financial consolidations and currency translation in www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx .

    If I not in mistake also, in the budget version of 2009, hasn’t possible to manage exchange rates. In 2012, you can apply exchange rate for the budget  

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    Ludwig Reinhard Profile Picture
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    RE: MR2012, AX2012 and exchange rates for IFRS

    Hi Abaw, In AX2012 there is a budget exchange rate that can be setup in GL (ledger window). For AX2009 I am not 100% sure how this works. I assume that AX2009 will use the same rate for budget and actual data but probably somebody else in the forum knows better and/or you test it out. All the best, Ludwig

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    RE: MR2012, AX2012 and exchange rates for IFRS

    I forgot one: what about budgets? How would it work there when I use a budget rate?

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    Ludwig Reinhard Profile Picture
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    RE: MR2012, AX2012 and exchange rates for IFRS

    Hi Abaw,

    In AX you can define the exchange rate that is used for currency conversion at the Chart of Account level. As a result, you can define different exchange rates per ledger account used for currency conversion in Management Reporter. You can find some additional Information, Videos and examples on the following MS blog: blogs.msdn.com/.../default.aspx.

    All the best,

    Ludwig

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