Pointers regarding Currency handling in BI

Hello All,
I am having difficulty in getting to grips with how currency is handled in queries.
There is a vast amount of resource out there but I am just starting out on this road of discovery and am looking for a few basic questions answered and also to be pointed in the right direction towards some good reference material. (the BW305 material does not really go much into currency).
My ultimate aim is to burst a report based on Sales Office. If the Sales Office is in the UK then the values should be in GBP. If the Sales Office is in Ireland then the values should be in EUR.
My begining questions are more basic:
Q1) How does BW store KF's relating to currency e.g Sales Amount. Are they stored in the cube as what? Local currency or document currency?
Q2) If a report prompts for currency input and I enter EUR, is the exchange rate used for conversion the rate at the time the document was created? Or the rate when the report is run? - this is quite important as my query reports on invoice sales for the past year. EUR/GBP rates have been up/down like crazy this year so using the current exchange rate for an invoice from Jan 2009 would not be a good representation of the sales value
Q3) I suspect that a decision has to be made at design stage regarding the currency in which values are stored in the cube. A UK company will generally report in GBP. But if the company has an operation in the Eorozone then those invoices will come in Euros. Being the minority they will be converted to GBP when loading to the cube.
Is my thinnkning on this correct?
Many thanks in advance to all who take a look at this posting and help.

Hi,
I might be able to give you some insight for your doubts.
Q1) How does BW store KF's relating to currency e.g Sales Amount. Are they stored in the cube as what? Local currency or document currency?
ANS: It most probably is stored in document currency. It depends on how you are loading the data. Check your amount key figure to see where the currency is being mapped from. Trace it backwards to the datasource to see which currency is stored in the cube/DSO. That will be the currency stored and it varies by design.
Q2) If a report prompts for currency input and I enter EUR, is the exchange rate used for conversion the rate at the time the document was created? Or the rate when the report is run? - this is quite important as my query reports on invoice sales for the past year. EUR/GBP rates have been up/down like crazy this year so using the current exchange rate for an invoice from Jan 2009 would not be a good representation of the sales value
ANS: The exchange rates are maintained in the table TCURR. you can update this table from R/3 system regularly or even otherwise. In your query, instead of just having a variable for currency type, you could also have a variable for exchange rate type. In that case, the user can choose an exchange rate type which is the right one for his purpose (eg: as of Jan 2009) and select the target currency. The selected amount in this case would be converted based on the selected exchange rate type and the target currency. This becomes pretty flexible for the users.
Q3) I suspect that a decision has to be made at design stage regarding the currency in which values are stored in the cube. A UK company will generally report in GBP. But if the company has an operation in the Eorozone then those invoices will come in Euros. Being the minority they will be converted to GBP when loading to the cube.
Is my thinnkning on this correct?
ANS: Of course this is a design decision but, the minority currency need not be converted to the general currency during data loading process. In your example, they can be stored as euros itself but, converted to GBPs at run time in the report. This is a better way of handling currency conversions. Think of this also. On the day of data load, if you convert euros to GBPs, it will apply some exchange rate and this might (will) vary after sometime. In that case, you will not be able to get the exact conversion at the time you want to see it.So, it is always a better option to keep the key figures in the same currencies and convert them in the reports.
Hope these answers are of some help for you.
Thanks and Regards
Subray Hegde
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