# Currency

### Currency

When doing an inventory purchase, you can select which currency is used for the invoice. Choosing from the description you enter here makes the selection of the currency.

**Description**

Enter here the Currency Description.

**Symbols**

Enter the characters representing the currency sign followed by the decimal separator character. The currency sign will appear in front of all currency amounts printed or displayed and the separator will be used to tell where the decimals begin. The separator must be present even if not used.

Example :

USA      " $. "    à $4.95 (with number of decimals = 2) Other    " LL "    à LL4950 (number of decimals = -1) Other    " FF "   à FF49,5 (number of decimals = 1) With a negative number of decimals, no decimals will be used because zeroes are appended to the amount.

**Nb. Decimals**

Enter the amount of decimals to appear in the currency amounts displayed or printed. If there are no decimals but instead there is a number of mandatory zeroes to appear, then enter the number of mandatory zeroes as a negative value in this field.

Example :

USA :    2 decimals $9.95 Other :  LL9950   decimal = -1 mandatory zero here

**Conversion Rate:**

Define here the exchange rate between the current currency and this media. The rate takes into account the difference between the number of decimals used for the two currencies.

Example :

To convert 5.00$ to LL8000 you can use -1 as number of decimals with a rate of 1.6 and a monetary sign of " LL ", The rate needs to be 1.6 and not 1600 since there is 3 digits difference in the number of decimals between the currencies.


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