SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3407173 - Payment Currency in the Expense Report is not as Expected

Symptom

Create an expense report for employees hired in a Hong Kong company with an expense amount in currency HKD. Upon saving, the currency of the reimbursement amount changes to a different currency, such as USD.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Travel and Expenses work center.
  2. Select the Expense Reports view.
  3. Select and edit the respective expense report.
  4. See the payment currency is USD.

Cause

In the example of Hong Kong, which is a non-localized country/region, the assigned default currency is maintained as USD: 

To verify:

  1. Go to the Business Configuration work center and access the Create New Country/Region Version activity. 
  2. For country/region Hong Kong, the default currency is USD.

Resolution

If there are expense reports exist in the system for this company, it is not possible to change the currency in the UI. If changes required, create a case to Support Team for backend adjustments.

See Also

KBA 2690313 - Display Currency in the report is not as Expected

KBA 1625369 - How System Determines Default Currency in Expense Report

KBA 2741128 - Currency Derivation for Expense Report Payments 

Keywords

Expense Report, Currency , KBA , SRD-FIN-ERM , Travel and Expense Management , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions