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SAP HANA Cookbook

You're reading from   SAP HANA Cookbook Your all-inclusive guide to understanding SAP HANA with practical recipes with over 50 recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782177623
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. SAP HANA Studio – Look and Feel 2. Data Provisioning FREE CHAPTER 3. Modeling 4. Reporting 5. Advanced Features in SAP HANA 6. User Management A. Introduction to SAP HANA B. Architecture C. Applications Powered by SAP HANA Index

Converting different currencies


In general, the businesses at any scale are geography-centric and based on the local currency. They are scattered across regions and continents. There is a strong significance to have the proper design and feature of currency conversion mechanism to ensure a robust, foolproof, and interconnected system in the database to calculate the key metrics or measures to ensure the numbers are correct. Posting orders, purchases, or invoicing is done in the local currency of where the sale happens. Business users or transaction specialists who execute the reports may be in the same or a different geographical region. For this reason, tables in SAP ERP, or any ERP for that matter, will have mandatory fields and an explicit nexus between the amount fields and the currencies. In this recipe, we will look at how to perform currency conversion.

How to do it…

The key stake objects or parameters are the source currency, target currency, and the impacted tables where the conversion...

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