1.1. Formatting Currencies
Ensure that each report that shows
monetary amounts indicates the currency or currencies associated with those
monetary amounts.
1.1.1. Currency Codes
Indicate currency in a report using
currency codes. Do not display currency symbols on your report. Instead, use
the three-character ISO currency code (Short Name in the Define Currencies form)
to indicate a currency for monetary amounts.
1.1.2. Single-Currency Reports
If each monetary amount in a report
is expressed in the same currency, append the currency code (in parentheses) to
the report subtitle.
Payroll Expense Summary
May 1991 (USD)
If a report
has no other subtitle, display the currency code alone.
Receipt Batch Control Report
(USD)
1.1.3. Currency Scaling Factor
If a single
currency report scales the monetary amounts (such as showing amounts expressed
in thousands of dollars), show the scaling factor after the currency code as
follows:
Payroll Expense Summary
May 1991 (USD 000s)
1.1.4. Multiple Currency Reports
If your report shows monetary
amounts expressed in two or more currencies, you need to indicate the currency code
for each column or for each value. Do not try to list currencies in the
subtitle of your report.
If you show a
monetary amount in a labeled field, display the amount followed by a space,
then by the three character currency code.
Total Expected Revenue: 9,999,999,999.99 USD
If you show
monetary amounts in a column format report, where each column is expressed in a
single currency, put the three character currency code in the column heading
(along with the scaling factor, if any).
Ending Balance (YEN 000s) Ending Balance (USD)
----------------------------- -----------------------
1,300 2,050.00
If a column displays monetary
amounts in two or more currencies, show the three character currency code
following each value. Align currency codes such that there is one space to the
right of the amount with the greatest precision. Widen the column by four
characters and extend the dashed line accordingly to allow space for the
currency code. Since this code is the ISO standard and will not change length
with translation, there is no need to allow additional space beyond the four
characters.
Align amounts shown in multiple
currencies at the actual or implied radix point. Even though they are not to be
totaled or read together as like values, it is still easier to distinguish each
value as a whole or decimal number if they are aligned in this way.
Unlike
amounts which are representing the same scale or currency and are padded with
zeros to their precision, do not pad dissimilar amounts such as these with
zeros.
Invoice Number Invoice Amount
--------------- ------------------
A123 999,999.22 USD
A234 101.21 NZD
A300 1243.550 DNR
A345 14,133.75 UKS
A678 4,355 DNR
A678 4,355 DNR
1.2. Non-Currency Formatting
1.2.1. Unit of Measure
Show the unit of measure for each
quantity field in your report (unless the unit of measure is obvious).
If an entire
column uses the same unit of measure, include the unit of measure in the column
heading. If the quantity formats include a radix, then align the radix in the
column and pad the quantities with zeroes.
Supplier Quantity (DZ)
----------------- -------------
Acme Eggs 300
Heavenly Hens 150
Heavenly Hens 150
If a column contains values
expressed in several units of measures, provide a unit column immediately to
the right of the amount column and include that column under the quantity
heading in the same manner as currencies are expressed with each amount. If any
of the quantity formats includes a radix, then align the radix characters in
the column, but do not pad the values with zeroes.
Item Quantity
-------------- -----------------
G21100232 1 DZ
G22100233 2 EACH
