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SSAP 20 - Foreign currency translation

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It may enter directly into business transactions that are denominated in foreign currencies; the results of these transactions will need to be translated into the currency in which the company reports. Foreign operations may be conducted through a foreign enterprise that maintains its accounting records in a currency other than that of the investing company; in order to prepare consolidated financial statements it will be necessary to translate the complete financial statements of the foreign enterprise into the currency used for reporting purposes by the investing company.

In individual financial statements, the general rule of SSAP 20 is that the result of each transaction should be translated into the company's local currency using the exchange rate in operation at the date on which the transaction occurred.

The standard also gives rules on the treatment of exchange gains and losses arising on settlement of a transaction or where a transaction is unsettled at the year-end.

At the consolidated financial statements stage, the standard requires that the method used to translate financial statements for consolidation purposes should reflect the financial and operational relationship that exists between an investing company and its foreign enterprise.

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The standard thus allows two alternative methods of translation of a foreign entity's financial statements, depending on whether the enterprise is a separate, quasi-independent entity, or rather where it represents a direct extension of the trade of the investing company.

SSAP 20 is effective for accounting periods starting on or after 1 April Publications Recruitment Making a Complaint.

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