About Currency Overrides on Journals

We recommend that you read and understand the following information before attempting to override currency exchange rates or currency values as explained in Overriding Currency Values and Rates on a Journal.

General principles

 
Notes:
  • If the Reporting Currency feature is enabled in your org, apply currency overrides on journals following the same steps used by the Dual currency but selecting the Reporting Currency instead. For more information, see Overriding Currency Values and Rates on a Journal.
  • Intercompany transfers allow you to override rates at the document level only. Therefore, when a destination journal is created from intercompany journal line items, the overridden rates are not carried forward to the destination journal.

Journal header level

  • You must enter only positive (debit) override currency values at header level.
  • You cannot specify the same currency more than once at header level.
  • If the override currency specified at header level is not used on the current document, its override value is ignored.
  • Override fields on the header are not dynamically updated as journal lines are added, edited or removed.

Journal line level

Editing dimensions after posting

The ability to edit dimensions on posted journals is controlled by a custom setting (Accounting). For more information, see Managing Custom Settings. However, irrespective of this setting, this ability is disabled when you override currency values or exchange rates on the journal.