ADVANCED ACCOUNTING
ADVANCED ACCOUNTING
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780357671221
Author: FISCHER
Publisher: CENGAGE L
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Chapter 11, Problem 1UTI
To determine

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The functional currency refers to the currency of that country in which entity generates cashflows and spend cash to make purchases.

To indicate:The factors that reflects that the domestic currency of the foreign company is not a functional currency.

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The entity’s domestic currency is not always considered as functional currency. For instance, if the company in X country borrows funds from the bank of Y country than the currency of Y country is functional currency rather than the currency used in country X.

Some of the major factors which reflects that the currency is not a functional currency are as follows:

  • Cashflows: If cashflows are generated in other country. For instance, the Country X operates in country Y, then the currency of Country Y will be considered as functional currency.
  • Financing: Funds procured from other country in their currency.
  • Sales market: If goods and services are sold in other country at their currency.
  • Expenses: If goods and services are purchased from other country. For instance, if country X’s domestic currency is dollar and the goods and services bought from country Y is in Yen, then Yen will be the functional currency.

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