3427248 - Customer Invoice Document is Posted to the Currency Exchange Rate Difference Account

You notice that the journal entry for a customer invoice document is posted to a currency exchange rate difference account and you wonder why.

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1. Go to General Ledger work center.
2. Go to Journal Entries view.
3. Search journal entry ID for the clearing document: AAA (AAA represents the customer invoice document ID).
4. You can see it is posted to a currency exchange rate difference account.

When you create a customer invoice, the system calculates the tax information immediately at the tax date. When the invoice is posted, the system calculates it again. In the customer invoice itself, under taxes tab, you'll see that the tax date maintained is DD.MM.YYYY. The exchange rate for this tax date will be DD.MM.YYYY at 00:00, so the exchange rate is BBB (BBB represents the valid exchange rate).

The exchange rate CCC used in the customer invoice depends on the valid exchange rate on the posting date (CCC represents valid exchange rate), so the exchange rate used in the journal entry and tax is different. That's why there's a difference amount posted to an exchange rate difference account.

This is the expected system behavior.

If you want the new exchange rate to be used for tax calculation, you need to cancel this invoice and create a new one:

1. Go to the Customer Invoicing work center.
2. Select the Invoice Documents view.
3. Show All Invoice Documents and search for the Customer Invoice in question.
4. Select the Customer Invoice and cancel it.
5. After that, create a new customer invoice with the right Tax Date and post it.

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