Foreign currency acquisition

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To create a cash receipt to record a purchase of foreign currency:

1. Do one of the following:
   • To generate a cash receipt based on a source document, select or open the source document. Then, click Generate > Cash receipt.
   • To create a cash receipt from scratch, go to Cash management and under Cash-in-hand, click Cash receipts. Then, in the Cash receipts list, click Create.
2. Specify general details:
   • Set Operation to Foreign currency acquisition.
     This operation is available if the Foreign exchange accounting checkbox is selected in Settings > Cash management, under Currencies.
   • Specify Cash flow item assigned to the received payment.
   • Fill in Amount to indicate the total payment amount.
   • Fill in Cash account to indicate a company’s cash account for receiving the payment.
   • Fill in other fields as necessary.
3. On the Payment details tab, specify payment details.
4. To be able to trace the received payment to the original planning document, on the Planning tab, specify planning documents that recorded a planned cash inflow. For details, see Planning tab.
   Note. This step is applicable if planning and forecast are enabled (the Cash flow projection checkbox is selected in Settings > Cash management, under Cash flow projection).
5. Optional: On the Additional information tab, specify additional information.
6. Click Post and close.

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