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- 1. The Rules
- 2. Currency Calculator And EURO
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- 1. The Rules
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- From 01/01/1999, 11 currencies will be entering in the EURO as NON DECIMAL
- subdivisions; they are called the IN currencies. At the same time, the XEU
- is replaced by the EURO (ISO code EUR) with a rate of 1:1.
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- All the other currencies (USD, GBP...) are called OUT currencies. Some of
- them (GBP) will enter the EURO later (?).
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- Their conversion rates between them and the EURO will be irrevocably fixed
- at the latest December 31, 1998. After this date, the only currency which
- will fluctuate is the EURO.
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- Here is a synthesis of the official rules for conversion and rounding, set
- out in Council Rule N░1103/97, adopted in June 17, 1997 in Amsterdam:
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- 1. Conversion rates shall be adopted as one EURO expressed in terms of each
- of the IN currencies. They shall be adopted with six significant figures
- (please notice that for IEP, these 6 figures are decimals).
- 2. The conversion rates shall not be rounded or truncated when making
- conversions.
- 3. Conversion rates shall be used for conversions either way between the
- EURO unit and IN currency units or vice versa. Inverse rates derived from
- the conversion rates shall not be used.
- 4. Monetary amounts to be converted from one IN currency unit into another
- IN currency unit shall first be converted into a monetary amount expressed
- in the EURO unit, which amount may be rounded to not less than three
- decimals and shall then be converted into the other national currency unit.
- No alternative method of calculation may be used unless it produces the
- same result.
- 5. Monetary units to be paid or accounted for when a rounding takes place
- after a conversion into the EURO unit pursuant to article 4 shall be
- rounded up or down to the nearest cent. Monetary amounts to be paid or
- accounted for which are converts into an IN currency shall be rounded up
- or down to the nearest sub-unit or in the absence of sub-unit, to the
- nearest unit, or according to national law or practise to a multiple or
- fraction of the sub-unit or unit of the IN currency. If the application
- of the conversion rate gives a result which is exactly halfway, the sum
- shall be rounded up.
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- Because of those rules, do not panic if you want to convert 100 FRF to FRF
- (IN currency to itself) and you get 100.03. That is correct!
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- 2. Currency Calculator And EURO
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- If you want to use Currency Calculator with EURO and IN and/or OUT currencies,
- you must do the following prior to any conversion:
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- 1. EURO must be defined first. On the "Edit Record" screen, "This is EURO"
- checkbox must be checked. Only one currency can have that checkbox
- checked. Currency Calculator will not allow you to add another EURO.
- 2. For each of the IN currencies, the "This is EC currency" checkbox must be
- checked. Do not check that checkbox for other (OUT) currencies (like USD)!
- 3. It is good to set the number of decimal places to which the result of the
- conversion will be rounded. For example, set that number to 2 for DEM, so
- each conversion to DEM will be rounded to 2 decimal places, and 2 decimal
- places will be displayed. Set rounding to 0 decimals for ITL, because ITL
- doesn't have sub-unit.
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- Conversion rates for the IN currencies are fixed, and will be defined by the
- EC, so you must enter them only once. The value to be entered is the value
- of 1 EURO.
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- The conversion rate for the EURO must be entered as usual (the example is
- for the case when "Reversed unit conversions" CurrCalc preferences checkbox
- is NOT checked):
- If
- 1 EUR = 0.6954587 GBP and
- 1 EUR = 1.1675 USD
- then you must enter the value for:
- EUR = 1
- GBP = 0.695458
- USD = 1.1675
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- If you want USD to have the value of 1, then enter:
- USD = 1
- EUR = 0.856531
- GBP = 0.595682
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- Currency Calculator internally uses 1 for the EURO when it is working with
- IN currencies, so in both cases above, conversion will be correct.
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- IMPORTANT: Conversion rates for currencies which are included in the
- "CurrC_DB.PDB" file supplied with Currency Calculator are only as an example!
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