Change a Company Journal

If you open an existing company journal with historical rates, and make changes of such things as the dimension on a row, you are prompted to change the historical values as well.

To change or accept the old historical values, click Yes. The historical rates window opens. Click OK in this window, to save the old values or save edited values. You also have to click Save in the Company Journals window. If you do not want to save the old historical values, click No or Cancel when prompted if you want to change historical values. The old historical values are then deleted.

If you work with a company journal with intercompany details, you have to click OK in the Intercompany Details window as well, to save old or edited historical values.

Be aware that you have to click OK in the Historical Rates window to save the historical values. If you click Cancel, the historical values will be deleted.

Procedure

  1. Select the account that you want to edit historical rates for in the Data Entry - Company Journals window or the Intercompany Details window and click the Historical Rates button.

    The Historical Rates window opens. The upper part of the window shows information about the account from the Company Journals window. If there are already historical rates stored on the account in the historical rates register, the grid in the lower part of the window contain these values.

  2. Select the currency that you want to change values for, or add a new row for new values. If there already are values stored in the historical rates register, these values are displayed.
  3. Click OK.

    You will return either to the Company Journals window or the Intercompany Details window, depending on where you started.

    Note: You have to click OKin the Intercompany Details window too. If you do not, the values you entered in the Historical Rates window are not saved.
  4. Click Save in the Company Journals window.

Results

Be aware that you have to click OKin both the Historical Rates window and the Intercompany Details window (if applicable) to save the entered historical rates. If you click Cancel in one or both windows, your changes will not be saved when you click Save in the Company Journals window.