Why foreign currency valuation is required ?

Hi.
I just want to clear my doubt. If we deal with foreign vendors or customers like vendor invoice is done through USD or EUR or GBP but payment is not made till now or customer invoices are done but payment is not received from them in month of August. In that case if we run foreign currency valuation of open vendor invoices and open customer invoices on 31st August it will generate accounting entry and next day i.e, 1st September accounting entry will be reversed. So my question is we have not received from customer and we have not paid to vendor, invoices are still open from customer and vendor side. So if we run foreign currency valuation what will be its actual effect in the business and if we not run foreign currency valuation what are the problems may arrises because later if we pay to vendor through foreign currency then actual loss / gain effect will arrise in our business scenario.
Kindly give me reply.

hi
As part of the period end process, and in anticipation of creating a period-end financial statement, all accounts held in foreign currency and all foreign currency open items must be re-valued at the period end rate. There are two tools within the SAP ERP Packaged Solution for this purpose:
Foreign Currency Revaluation u2013 Balance Sheet Accounts: The program selects every balance sheet account, typically cash accounts, that is held in a foreign currency and re-values the total balance at the currently valid rate. Any (sterling) exchange rate difference is posted to a realised gains/losses account.
Foreign Currency Revaluation u2013 Open Item Accounts: Open item accounts managed in GBP, such as debtors and creditors, may contain foreign currency transactions. The program will individually revalue each open item to determine an overall unrealised foreign exchange gain or loss position. The realised exchange rate gain/loss is posted when the transaction is cleared.
It is a statutory requirement to meet hte FAS52 and GAAP requirements
thanks
Srilaskhmi

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Sreeni.

HI ,
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hello frnds,
i got the following error while running the foreign currency valuation.
No accounting principle assigned to valuation area
Message No.fr894
Diagnosis
In customizing the valuation area is not assigned to an accounting principle. You can use the accounting principle to define the general ledgers in which posting takes place.
System Response
Error msg
Procedure
Assign the valuation area to an accounting principle.
Above is the error message, but I created valuation area and assigned it to an accounting principle.
Guide me with some inputs.
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