There will be occasions where the exchange rate used by the bank is not the same as the one you are using in FirstOffice. For example, if you receive a Purchase Invoice for USD 110.00 when USD 1.61 buys one GBP (Base Currency 1), you expect at the time of Invoice to pay out 68.32 in the home Currency. However, when you issue the cheque, you discover that the bank will only take 65.00 from your account. When you enter the Invoice Number in a Payment, the Sent Value will default to USD 110.00, and the Bank Amount will default to GBP 68.32:

Change the Bank Amount to 65.00 (the Sent Value will remain USD 110.00):

When you approve and save the Payment, the gain of 3.32 will be posted to the Rate Round Off Account specified on the 'Exchange Rate' card of the Account Usage P/L setting:

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