Financing
You can hold a source in the currency it is actually granted in and still read one comparable total.
International financing arrives in several currencies. A French fund grants euros, a US distributor pays dollars, a Swiss co-producer francs — and each of those figures is the one written in the contract.
Enter each source in **its own currency**. Do not convert by hand.
Choose it in the source's **Currency** cell. The list is the linked budget's currency list — financing does not keep its own. If the currency you need is missing, add it in the budget's currency settings; **Edit Currencies** in the financing toolbar takes you there.
Type the number the financier actually committed. The Amount is read in the row's currency, so a source in USD holds dollars.
**Total** shows the same money converted into the plan's reporting currency, using the budget's exchange rate. That is the figure that rolls up into the country band, the **Financing Total** and the rail — so everything above a source is comparable even when the sources are not.
Two reasons, and both bite later.
**Rates move.** A source entered as contracted follows the rate; a source someone converted by hand is frozen at whatever the rate was that afternoon, and nobody remembers which afternoon.
**Contracts are read in their own currency.** When the fund asks whether you have booked their €400,000, you want a row that says €400,000.
Conversion happens when the plan is displayed, not when you type. Change a rate in the linked budget and every source in that currency moves, along with the Financing Total.
That is normally exactly what you want — one place to update when rates are revised. It is worth knowing before a negotiation, though: revising a rate mid-discussion changes the plan under you.
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