Glossary

Dual currency

Updated 3 September 2026By Santiago Viglione

Dual currency is the ability to view the same financial statements in each entity's local currency and in the group's currency at the same time, without recalculating or keeping two versions.

What it includes

Each entry keeps its amount in local currency and carries the amount translated at the period's consolidation exchange rate. That way the P&L, balance sheet and cash flow can be shown in either currency, and translation differences are identified instead of mixed into the result.

Example with numbers

Subsidiary in Mexico: March revenue 2,000,000 MXN, average rate 0.050: 100,000 EUR. In April it invoices 2,100,000 MXN (+5% in local currency), but the rate falls to 0.046: 96,600 EUR (−3.4% in euros). Without dual currency, the group would see a decline; with it, it sees that the subsidiary grew and the peso fell.

How Fibady does it

Each entity has its functional currency and its exchange rate per period, and the group chooses its own. The consolidation switches between local and group currency with one click, in the P&L, balance sheet and cash flow, and every translated figure opens down to the original amount in the entry.

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Frequently asked questions

Not quite. Multi-currency is booking transactions in different currencies within one entity; dual currency is reporting every complete financial statement in two currencies at once.

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