RE: Migrating from Single to Multi-currency

Dan,

Sure, it's quite a bit of work.  The quickest way to do it is to set up new
target financial companies.  You must be careful because all your nonstock
and service purchase orders will point to the "old" company.

The more time-consuming effort is changing the currency flag in the
financial companies.  All the transaction files, period balance files,
master files, etc. that have a currency flag or base and prime values will
have to be updated.  This is a daunting task and will take several tries
before you get it right.

I've worked with some companies who wanted to change their chart of accounts
as well as currency flags. Usually, the first option works best for them.

The benefits of changing only the currency flags usually is not worth
effort.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jbausers-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-jbausers-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Dan Thomas
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 2:15 PM
To: 'JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com'
Subject: Migrating from Single to Multi-currency


Ed, can you comment on what is involved in taking an existing JBA company
from single to multi-currency?

Dan Thomas
Sr. VP Information Systems
MDI
4500 Progress Blvd.
Louisville, KY  40218-5058
Phone (502) 454-9013 ext. 120
www.mdiweb.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Lybrook [mailto:elybrook@btcgrp.com]
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 12:23 PM
To: JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: AP Log report by GL Account number


Whenever setting up JBA/GEAC, I always recommend setting up multi-currency.
In the past, quality testing was always ran in a multicurrency environment,
assuming if it worked in multicurrency, it would work in single currency.
This may have changed since the buy-out by GEAC.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jbausers-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-jbausers-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Ram Hari
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 11:21 AM
To: JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com
Subject: AP Log report by GL Account number


I have a problem here where the AP log report by GL Numbers does not match
with the log report by supplier (Menu 31&32/APE). The Log report by GL
account number runs out of PLP17 (Invoice log dissections) file and log by
supplier runs out of PLP15(Item transaction).
After some investigation I found out that the dissections file(PLP17) had
some log records where the Base posting amount were zero and the prime had a
$ value. We are a single currency company and as I understand the base
should always be equal to prime, I also checked the vendor set up all the
vendors associated with these records and they are set up correctly as
single currency (Checked CSUP05).
I think lot of times this error might go unnoticed because somehow when we
confirm log and post it to GL it fixes itself or else we should have had an
AP and GL out of balance issue.
Any help would be highly appreciated
Thanks


Ram S. Hari
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
mailto:ramhari@wasserstrom.com <mailto:ramhari@wasserstrom.com>
Voice 614.228.6525 Ext. 8542
Fax    253.484.5806

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