Currency, Units and percentage points

Methods and settings

One convention throughout the model

A displayed monetary value equals the model-currency amount multiplied by the display FX rate and divided by the unit scale. If display and functional currency are the same, FX is 1. Enter a monetary amount in the unit shown next to its field. The same semantics apply to schedules, summaries, Inspector and Analyze ranges or thresholds. Currency and scale do not become independent settings for Credit & Liquidity.

Read EURk before entering the number

With EURk active, 1 means EUR 1,000, 0.5 means EUR 500 and 100 means EUR 100,000. A facility Commitment of 1 EURk and an Inspector value of 1 EURk refer to the same amount. Required Funding and Minimum Cash use the same displayed monetary unit. An amount in millions has a different scale: 1 means one million currency units.

Do not scale every number as money

Percentages, percentage points, multiples, days, weeks, FTE and share counts have their own units. A change from 10% to 12% is +2 percentage points and a 20% relative increase. Price, ARPU, salary and revenue per FTE use displayed currency per unit without the total-money thousands/millions scale. Price per share also retains its per-share unit; a share count is not divided by the monetary thousands scale. Check the label on every analysis variable, especially when combining different types.

Unit and aggregation answer different questions

Flows such as revenue generally sum across periods; closing stocks such as cash use the closing observation; ratios are recomputed from the relevant underlying values. A consistent currency unit does not make a closing balance additive. See periods and the specific operator reference before combining schedule columns.