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Multi-Currency Accounting for Nonprofit Organizations

Universal
Double-Entry Accounting with foreign currencies
Non-Profit

Start FOR FREE the accounting of your association and immediately get the income statement and the balance sheet. This easy and ready-to-use template is ideal for people who have to manage accounts in multiple currencies for business relationships with foreign countries or international projects. Your data remains private on your PC and you don't need to register.

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Open Banana Accounting Plus op uw browser zonder enige installatie. Pas het sjabloon aan, voer de transacties in en sla het bestand op uw computer op.

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Model documentatie

This template presents a brief chart of accounts with descriptive accounts that facilitate data entry. Get the Income Statement and Balance Sheet quickly, manage members and projects.

For more information on solutions for associations go to the Accounting for non-profit organizations page.

Create your file

  • Create a new file, starting from this template (Template ID  +10621), using one of the methods explained. 
  • With the command File → File properties, set the period, the company name and the basic currency.
  • With the command File → Save as, save the file. Enter the company name and year in the file name.
    For example "association-2022.ac2".

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Enter the Transactions

Register the liquidity transactions in the journal. Enter the date, the document number and the description. Enter the destination account into the Debit Account column, and  the account of origin in the Credit Account column. Then add the amount and specify the currency.

You can modify the journal at any time.

Click here to learn more about transactions.

transactions

Check and customize the Accounts table

Once you have entered the transactions, you can check the Accounts table. You will have an overview of your assets, liabilities, income and expenses, which allows you to keep your balance under control.

accounts assets liabilities

Get the Profit and Loss Statement and the Balance Sheet

At any time of the year you can create your balance sheet, which is a financial report of your assets, liabilities and equity and the profit and loss statement, which includes income and expenses. You can also compare your current situation with the budget to understand if and where you are spending excessive amounts of money.

balance sheet

profit loss statement

Modelvoorbeeld

Association XX

Basic Currency: EUR

Double-entry with foreign currencies

Table: Accounts
Group Description Currency Sum In
    BALANCE SHEET    
         
    Assets    
  Cash Cash EUR Assets
  Bank EUR Bank Current Account EUR EUR Assets
  Bank USD Bank Current Account USD USD Assets
  Bank GBP Bank Current Account GBP GBP Assets
  Post Post Current Account EUR Assets
  Office Forniture Office Forniture EUR Assets
  Computer and Software Computer and Software EUR Assets
  Car Car EUR Assets
Assets   Total Assets   00
         
    Liabilities    
  Suppliers Suppliers EUR Total Liabilities
  Visa Credit card loan EUR Total Liabilities
  Loan Bank loan EUR Total Liabilities
  Start-up Capital Start-up Capital EUR Total Liabilities
  Brought forward profit or loss Brought forward profit or loss EUR Total Liabilities
Profit or loss of the current year   Profit or loss of the current year   Total Liabilities
Total Liabilities   Total Liabilities   00
         
         
    PROFIT/LOSS STATEMENT    
         
    INCOME    
  Donations Donations EUR 4
  Membership Membership payments EUR 4
  Sales Various Sales EUR 4
  Other Income Other income EUR 4
  Exchange rate profit Exchange rate profit EUR 4
4   TOTAL INCOME   Result
         
    EXPENSES    
  Office Supplies Office supplies, printing material, photocopies EUR 3
  Postal Fees Postal fees EUR 3
  Rent Rent EUR 3
  Electricity Elecricity EUR 3
  Water Water EUR 3
  Teleohone and Fax Telephone and fax EUR 3
  Internet Internet EUR 3
  Publicity Publicity, flyers, printing EUR 3
  Cleaning Cleaning EUR 3
  Maintenance and repairs Maintenance and repairs EUR 3
  Goods and materials Goods and materials EUR 3
  Salaries Personnel expenses EUR 3
  Social Insurance expenses Social Insurance expenses EUR 3
  Vehicle and transport Vehicle and transport costs EUR 3
  Refund Volunteers Refund to volunteers EUR 3
  Fees and Permits Fees and other permits EUR 3
  Unexpected expenses Unexpected expenses EUR 3
  Unregistered expenses Small unregistered expenses EUR 3
  Other expenses Other expenses EUR 3
  Exchange rate loss Exchange rate loss EUR 3
3   TOTAL EXPENSES   Result
         
Result   RESULT   Profit or loss of the current year
         
00   Difference should be = 0 (blank cell)    
         
         
    COST CENTERS    
         
    Members    
  ;MA Montgomery Alexander EUR TM
  ;WB Weelt Bob EUR TM
  ;JB Johnson Bill EUR TM
  ;RJ Ross Jeremy EUR TM
TM   Total members    
         
         
    SEGMENTS    
         
    Projects    
  :Project A Project A EUR TP
  :Project B Project B EUR TP
  :Project C Project C EUR TP
TP   Total projects    
Table: Exchange rates
Ref.Currency Currency Text
     
EUR USD Dollar
EUR GBP Pound Sterling

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