Question 270
An accounting team resolves the following issue: A foreign-currency bank balance is held in GBP, and end-month EUR statements are wrong because bank currency revaluation was skipped. Which observed record or result is decisive?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The resulting valuation entry updates reporting balances and is traceable to the bank and period. This directly tests the intended correction: Run the approved bank foreign currency revaluation with valid effective exchange rates. The underlying failure or control mechanism is: Foreign-currency bank accounts can require periodic revaluation separate from operational statement matching.
Incorrect Answers
A forecast run includes upcoming eligible vendor payments with the intended timing. That would verify a different case: Central treasury needs cash flow forecasts, but no vendor due-date payment data reaches the forecast. It does not verify the required corrective action: Run the approved bank foreign currency revaluation with valid effective exchange rates.
Approved offsets reduce eligible customer and vendor open balances while retaining traceable settlement records. That would verify a different case: Customer A owes an invoice while vendor A is owed a payable for the same legal party, but finance creates cash payments in both directions. It does not verify the required corrective action: Run the approved bank foreign currency revaluation with valid effective exchange rates.
The statement imports with matching dates, references and amounts into bank reconciliation. That would verify a different case: A bank statement import rejects transactions because its electronic format differs from the configured payment/bank statement format. It does not verify the required corrective action: Run the approved bank foreign currency revaluation with valid effective exchange rates.