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How to manage a bank in a foreign currency?
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In Odoo, every transaction is recorded in the default currency of the
company. Reports are all based on the currency of the company. But for
transactions occurring in another currency, Odoo stores both the value
in the currency of the company and the value in the currency of the
transaction.

When you have a bank account in a foreign currencies, for every
transaction, Odoo stores two values:

-  The debit/credit in the currency of the company

-  The debit/credit in the currency of the bank account

Currency rates are updated automatically using yahoo.com, or the
European Central bank web-services.

Configuration
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Activate the multi-currency feature
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In order to allow your company to work with multiple currencies, you
should activate the multi-currency mode. In the accounting application,
go into :menuselection:`Configuration --> Settings --> Accounting & Finance Features`
make sure the **Allow Multi-currencies** box is ticked. Provide
a **Currency Exchange Gain / Loss** account, then click on **Apply**.

Configure currencies
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Once the Odoo is configured to support multiple currencies, you should
activate the currencies you plan to work with. To do that, go the menu
:menuselection:`Configuration --> Currencies`. All the currencies are created by default,
but you should activate the ones you plan to support. (to activate a
currency, check his active field)

After having activated the currencies, you can configure the parameters
to automate the currency rate update. These options are also in the
settings of the Accounting application, in the bottom of the page:

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Click on the **Update Now** link to update the currency rates now.

Create a new bank account
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In the accounting application, we first go to :menuselection:`Configuration -->
Accounting / Bank account`, and we create a new one.

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Once you save this bank account, Odoo will create all the documents for
you:

- An account in the trial balance

- A journal in your dashboard

- Information about the bank account in the footer of your invoices if
  checked the box **Show in Invoices Footer**

Example: A vendor bill in a foreign currency
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Based on the above example, let's assume we receive the following bill
from a supplier in China.

In the :menuselection:`Purchase --> Vendor Bills` , this is what you could see:

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Once you are ready to pay this bill, click on register payment on the
bill to record a payment.

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That's all you have to do. Odoo will automatically post the foreign
exchange gain or loss at the reconciliation of the payment with the
invoice, depending if the currency rate increased or decreased between
the invoice and the payment date.

Note that you can pay a foreign bill with another currency. In such a
case, Odoo will automatically convert between the two currencies.

Customers Statements
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Customers and vendor statements are managed in the currency of the
invoice. So, the amount due by your customer (to your vendor) is always
expressed in the currency of the invoice.

If you have several invoices with different currencies for the same
customer, Odoo will split the customer statement by currency, as shown
in the report below.

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In the above report, the account receivable associated to Camptocamp is
not managed in a secondary currency, which means that it keeps every
transaction in his own currency. If you prefer, you can set the account
receivable of this customer with a secondary currency and all his debts
will automatically be converted in this currency.

In such a case, the customer statement always has only one currency. In
general, this is not what the customer expect as he prefers to see the
amounts in the currency of the invoices he received;