Currencies

FinKit lets you choose from 182 different currencies which are divided into three groups:

	EMU currencies	The Euro and the currencies of the 16 member countries of the Economic and Monetary Union.
	Online updates	34 commonly used currencies whose Euro exchange rates can be updated online. Here you'll find the US Dollar and the Japanese Yen.
	Manual updates	Currencies whose Euro exchange rates need to be updated manually. Here you'll find currencies such as the Afghanistan Afghani and the Zimbabwean Dollar.

FinKit also provides two "special" currencies:

	None	The "None" currency has neither ISO code nor symbol. Use it when you don't want an ISO code or symbol to appear on screen or in the saved results. The "None" currency is located at the top of the EMU currencies list.
	Custom	Use the "Custom" currency if your currency is not available among the 182 FinKit currencies. The "Custom" currency is located at the bottom of the Manual updates list.

Currencies window

To work with currencies choose the Edit Currencies command from the Currency menu and open the Currencies window.

Click the EMU currencies, Online updates or Manual updates tab to view and edit the currencies belonging to each group.

Click the Online resources tab to turn on automatic rates update at startup, specify a proxy and visit the sites which can assist you while updating rates manually.

Finding currencies

To find a currency, click the Find Currency button in the Currencies window and open the Find Currency dialog. Select the currency in the list and click the Show button to display the pane where it is located and select it.

Editing currencies

To edit a currency, double-click it and open the Edit Currency dialog. Use the Edit Currency dialog to specify a symbol to be used instead of the ISO code, edit the currency's Euro exchange rate (for non-EMU currencies), select a different rounding and add or remove the currency from the Currency menu.

Note: Selected roundings can be overridden by some settings in the Precision tab in the Preferences dialog.

Updating exchange rates

The Euro exchange rates of the currencies belonging to the Online updates group can be updated automatically over the Internet. To update these rates automatically, click the Update button in the Online updates pane.

What if you need more conversion options?

Then you should definitely take a look at Euro Assistant Pro!

Euro Assistant Pro from MaBaSoft converts any currency into any other currency, updates exchange rates over the Internet, logs, prints, saves and exports your conversions, imports and automatically converts series of amounts, calculates and converts the result of algebraic expressions.

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Precision preferences