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Chapter 14
Foreign Currency
Financial Statements
to accompany
Advanced Accounting, 11th edition
by Beams, Anthony, Bettinghaus, and Smith
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Foreign Currency Financial Statements:
Objectives
1. Identify the factors that should be considered
when determining an entity’s functional
currency.
2. Understand how functional currency
assignment determines the way the foreign
entity’s financial statements are converted into
its parent’s reporting currency.
3. Understand how a foreign subsidiary’s
economy is determined to be highly inflationary
and how this affects the conversion of its
financial statements to its parent’s reporting
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Objectives (Cont.)
4. Understand how the investment in a
foreign subsidiary is accounted for at
acquisition.
5. Understand which rates are used to
translate balance sheet and income
statement accounts under the current rate
method and the temporal method on a
translation/ remeasurement worksheet.
6. Know how the translation gain or loss, or
remeasurement gain or loss, is reported
under the current rate and temporal
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Objectives (Cont.)
7. Know how a parent accounts for its
investment in a subsidiary using the
equity method depending on the
subsidiary’s functional currency
determination.
8. Understand consolidation under the
temporal and current rate methods.
9. Understand how a hedge of the net
investment in a subsidiary is accounted
for under the current rate and temporal
methods.
Foreign Currency Financial Statements
1: FUNCTIONAL CURRENCY

Functional Currency
Definition: Currency of the primary economic

environment in which the entity operates.
Primarily, this means the currency received
from customers and used to pay liabilities.
Other factors include the currency:
 Used in setting sales prices
 That is dominant in the sales market
 Used to pay operating expenses
 Financing the company
 Used in intercompany transactions
2: FUNCTIONAL CURRENCY
DETERMINES CONVERSION
METHOD

Restatement Method Selection
If the functional currency is the U.S. dollar, use
the Temporal method.
If the functional currency is the local currency,
use the Current Rate method.
Examples:
1. A Mexican subsidiary of a U.S. firm has the
peso as its functional currency.
2. A Japanese subsidiary of a U.S. firm has the
U.S. dollar as its functional currency.
3. An Australian subsidiary of a U.S. firm,
keeping its own records in Australian
dollars, determines its functional currency is
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Selecting the Method
Local Functional Reporting
currency currency currency
Translation
Method
Ex 1 Peso Peso U.S.$ Current rate
Translate (current rate method) from Peso to US$
Ex 2 Yen U.S.$ U.S.$ Temporal
Remeasure (temporal method) from Yen to US$
Ex 3 Aus$ Euro U.S.$ Temporal
Remeasure from Aus$ to Euros,
then Translate from Euros to U.S.$

Exchange Rates
Translation (the Current Rate method) will
convert financial statements using
 Assets, Liabilities : Current (FYE)
 Equity, Dividends : Historical (retained earnings is not
translated)
 Revenues, Expenses : Current (average)
Remeasurement (the Temporal Method) will
convert financial statements using
 Monetary Assets, Liabilities : Current (FYE)
 Other Assets, Liabilities : Historical
 Equity, Dividends : Historical (retained earnings is not
remeasured)
 Revenues, Expenses : Current (average) & Historical
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3: HIGHLY INFLATIONARY
ECONOMIES

Inflation and Functional Currency
For subsidiaries of U.S. firms in highly
inflationary economies, assume that the
functional currency is the U.S. dollar.
Remeasure the statements

using the Temporal method.
Highly inflationary = cumulative inflation of

100% or more over 3 years.
4: BUSINESS COMBINATIONS

Translation at Acquisition
Foreign assets & liabilities are translated
using the current rate at the date of
acquisition.
If functional currency = local currency

 Translation is appropriate
 Analysis of fair value/book value differentials is
performed in local currency
 Results are translated at current rates
Remeasurement at Acquisition
Foreign assets and liabilities are translated using the
current rate at the date of acquisition
If functional currency = US$ or reporting currency

 Remeasurement is appropriate
 Analysis of fair value/book value differentials is
performed in U.S.$
 The 'earliest' historical rate generally used in
remeasurement is the date of the acquisition.

Noncontrolling Interest
For both, remeasurement and translation,
the consolidation process is applied to the
financial statements as restated in U.S.$.
Measures of NCI, NCI share, & CI share are

computed in U.S.$.

5: CURRENT RATE METHOD

AND TEMPORAL METHOD

Assets
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Liabilities and Equity

Revenues and Expenses
Note that "current" rate, as used for income

statement items, is usually the average rate for
the year. Firms with seasonal business
fluctuations would use a weighted average rate.
6: TRANSLATION
ADJUSTMENTS AND
REMEASUREMENT
GAIN/LOSS

Current Rate Method: Example
Translate the adjusted trial balance:
 Assets and Liabilities at the year-end
(“current”) rate
 Equity at the historical rate (from the date of
the related transaction)
 Except Retained Earnings which is a
composite rate from each year
 Revenues and Expenses will be at the average
rate for the related period
The entry needed to balance the trial balance
after the translation is complete will be an entry
to Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income,
and thus will appear on the balance sheet.
Current Rate Method: Example (cont.)
See calculation, next slide…

Current Rate Method: Example (cont.)
Because all debit and credit balances are not translated

using the same exchange rate, the trial balance will not
balance at the end of the translation. In this example, the
debits happen to be $28,600 less than the credits. This is
the debit to accumulated OCI at the end of the year.
Temporal Method: Example
Remeasure the adjusted trial balance:
 Monetary Assets and Liabilities at the year-end (“current”) rate
 Non-monetary Assets and Liabilities at the rate from the date of
transaction (“historical”)
 Equity at the historical rate (from the date of the related transaction)
 Except Retained Earnings which is a composite rate
 Revenues and most Expenses will be at the average rate for the
related period
 Cost of Goods Sold, Depreciation and Amortization Expense at the
historical rate of the related asset
The entry needed to balance the trial balance after the translation is
complete will be an Exchange Gain/(Loss), and thus will appear on the
income statement.
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Temporal Method: Example (cont.)
See calculation, next slide…

Temporal Method: Example (cont.)
Because all debit and credit balances are not translated

using the same exchange rate, the trial balance will not
balance at the end of the translation. In this example, the
debits happen to be $3,300 less than the credits. This is
the exchange loss for the year.
Adjustment Summary
Remeasurement results in
 Exchange gains or losses on the income statement
 Credit to balance = exchange gain
 Debit to balance = exchange loss
 Include the gain or loss in calculating net income in
U.S. dollars.
Translation results in
 Translation adjustment, part of accumulated other
comprehensive income
 Include as part of stockholders' equity
 Debit to balance = deduct from equity
 Credit to balance = add to equity
The Difference in Methodology
The ultimate goal is consolidation .
Use the Temporal method when the U.S. dollar is the
functional currency of the subsidiary, to best reflect
the relationship of the subsidiary as an extension of
the parent, and thus the remeasurement adjustment
is part of the current period income.
Use the Current Rate method when the local currency
is the functional currency of the subsidiary, to best
reflect the subsidiary’s status as a free-standing
company in whom the parent is merely invested, thus
the translation adjustment is shown in the equity
section of the parent’s balance sheet.
7: EQUITY METHOD FOR

FOREIGN INVESTMENTS

Equity Method Investee
A U.S. firm has a foreign investment it accounts
for under the equity method.
 If functional currency is the local currency, then
translation is appropriate
At acquisition
 Analyze fair value and book value, compute goodwill –
in local/functional currency
Annually
 Translate statements into U.S. dollars
 Record other comprehensive income for translation
adjustment
Equity Method Entries
12/31/11 Investment in Star 525,000
Cash 525,000
Acquisition cost
12/1/12 Cash 42,600
Investment in Star 42,600
Dividends received, at current exchange rate
12/31/1
2 Investment in Star 93,200
OCI, translation
adjustment 28,600
Income from Star 121,800
Year-end adjustment for income
The income is from the translated income
statement, with appropriate amortizations
for fair value/book value differences.

Amortization of Differentials
On 12/31/11, Pat acquired Star. Star had
unrecorded patent of £100,000. The exchange
rate was $1.50.
The patent is amortized over 10 years. The
average and year-end exchange rates are $1.45
and $1.40.
12/31/11 Patent £100,000 $1.50 $150,000
2012 Amortization expense £10,000 $1.45 $14,500
12/31/1
2 Patent £90,000 $1.40 $126,000
OCI translation adjustment for patent is $9,500.
$150,000 – 14,500 – 126,000 = $9,500
The adjustment brings the net value of the patent to its
translated year-end amount of $126,000.
8: CONSOLIDATION OF
FOREIGN SUBSIDIARIES

Consolidating Foreign Subsidiaries
The parent uses the appropriately
translated or remeasured subsidiary
financial statements in its consolidation
worksheet.
 Income from the subsidiary and
Investment in subsidiary are eliminated.
 Subsidiary equity accounts are
eliminated (including accumulated OCI).
 Worksheet procedures are similar to
that for domestic subsidiaries.
Worksheet – Income Statement
Star's balances come
from the translated
statements. Current
amortization for the
patent is recorded.

Worksheet – Retained Earnings
Star's beginning retained

earnings and current
dividends are eliminated.

Worksheet - Assets
The Investment in Star
and intercompany
receivables are
eliminated. Differentials
from acquisition are
recorded – the patent
and its current
amortization.

Worksheet – Liabilities & Equity
Intercompany payable is
eliminated. All of the subsidiary
equity is eliminated, including
Accumulated OCI. Parent's
Accumulated OCI contains impact
of translation adjustments.

9: HEDGE OF NET
INVESTMENT

Hedge a Foreign Investment
Investee's functional currency = local
currency
 Effective hedges qualify for hedge treatment
 "Gains or losses" are translation adjustments
which are included in accumulated OCI
Investee's functional currency = reporting
currency
 "Hedging" is treated as speculative
 Gains or losses are recognized in income for the
current financial period
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Definition: Currency of the primary economic

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Remeasure the statements

Highly inflationary = cumulative inflation of

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If functional currency = local currency

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5: CURRENT RATE METHOD

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