Cost of Goods Sold Calculations

I have a planning folder where the user first enters a company code, a currency and a profit center into the respective variables. In the subsequent template user enters material SKU along with planned Sales Quantity and planned Average Selling Price (ASP). I load standard prices for all material from R/3. I have two FOX formulae running in the background as soon as the user saves his/her entries. First one calculates product revenue, which is (ASP * Quantity). This one works perfectly fine. The second formula needs to calculate Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), which is (Standard Price * Quantity). This formula fails miserably. As far as my understanding goes, in order for a FOX formula to work all the characteristics that are not in the parameter group between the standard price record and the quantity record should match exactly. If there is an inherent mimatch between the records then you try to take care of the mismatch in the FOX formula by hard coding. The quantity records have SKU, company code, profit center, currency (!yeah, currency!), units of measure. Whereas the standard price records have SKU, distribution plant, currency. I understand that I can put # sign for company code and profit center in the FOX formula for selecting a standard price record, but unfortunately the currency of the standard price record may not be the same as that of currency of the quantity record since many materials are sourced from a distribution center outside the company code!! So the simple multiplication of Std price * quantity is not working!!!
I think of two options here.
1. As it doesn't make sense to populate currency field for a quantity record, I should move the currency variable into the data field for ASP records only. This way I can put # in currency field for quantity record selection. But the downside of this is that instead of posting quantity and ASP in one record into the cube, two seperate records get posted when user saves the data. As our users plan on 10000 different SKUs across the globe, this may not be a good idea unless the option two doesn't work.
2. There must be a way to make the FOX formula work even with the mismatch of currencies between quantity and standard price. I need your inputs in this regard.
If someone could also explain whether or not my understanding of FOX formula is correct, that would be great. As always, I would appreciate all the helpful inputs with points.

Yes FOX can be difficult to achieve things that are simpler than simple
The way you described, it will only search fo a standard price on the same currency.
Try to set the currency as changeable characteristic and then search prices for each possible currency.
standard price value = {standard price, currency1} + {standard price, currency2} etc..
The possible currencies could also be filled in a variable which is read at runtime.
Don't know an easier way!
Regards,
Beat

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Hi Raj/ Mahendro,
Thank you for sending me the reply. I will briefly explain you the our process. The purchase from external vendor is done in warehouse belonging to one company code. The purchase is done at Moving average price but normally for an article there are no price variations. Goods receipt in warehouse is done after adding freight and insurance onto the cost of article.This is the value at which we want to transfer to another site in anotehr company code.
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