Prophylactic: A preventive measure. The word comes from the Greek for an advance guard, an apt term for a measure taken to fend off a disease or another unwanted consequence. A prophylactic is a medication or a treatment designed and used to prevent a disease from occurring.
Changes in functional currency amounts that result from the measurement process are called transaction gains or losses; transaction gains and losses are included in net income. Foreign currency translation is the process of expressing a foreign entityâs functional currency financial statements in the reporting currency. Translation adjustments are included in the cumulative translation adjustment (CTA) account, which is a component of other comprehensive income.
1 For entries made to General Ledger but not to the GL cash account, you can post a bank adjustment using the GL cash account as both debit and credit account. 2  Because the adjustment is already posted in General Ledger, this creates a posted bank adjustment, balancing the reports without affecting the cash account. If the Bank is set up specifically to track a Credit Card, the statement balance was entered as a positive number instead of a negative number. 2  Debit account on the adjustment is not the cash account. 3  The bank is not set to track cash in General Ledger.