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When a parent-subsidiary relationship exists between two companies in different countries using different currencies, the act or practice of changing the financial statements of the subsidiary to conform to the accounting standards of the parent's country, as well as re-denominating the subsidiary's currency into the parent's currency. According to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States, the translation of a foreign currency to U.S. dollars must be accurate as of the date on the financial statement. If there have been substantial changes to the exchange rate since that date, the consolidated financial statement must note this.

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The expression of amounts denominated in one currency in terms of another currency by using the rate at which two currencies are exchanged. For example, a firm with foreign operations might express sales made in German marks in terms of U.S. dollars. Also called foreign currency translation.
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The extent of certain teeth translatory movement and extent of their inclination may be determined by mathematical expressions (1) and (2).
Possibility of determining relations between translatory movement and inclination of agonist teeth after extraction of first permanent molars/Mogucnost odredivanja odnosa izmedu translatornog kretanja i nagiba zuba agonista nakon ekstrakcije prvih stalnih molara
Reminiscent of her translatory gloss of phrases such as "the scarlet letter," Daneshvar's footnotes seek to mitigate the difficulties of Hawthorne's alphabetic symbolism, granting her audience access to information readily available to Anglo-American readers.
Composing a Persian Letter: Simin Daneshvar's rendition of Hawthorne
The result of this translatory option is an unequivocal judgement on the state of the pebble.
The poetics of grammar as challenge and chance in literary translations
1989): "Translation in Bilingual Conversation: Pragmatic Aspects of Translatory Interaction", Journal of Pragmatics 13: 713-739.
Traductor y teoria de la traduccion
And all we might infer from ancient testimonies about the translatory activities of a Sisenna and his contemporary Varro--these two must have known each other fairly well--might be revealing when looked at from new perspectives.
Latinising the novel. Scholarship since Perry on Greek 'models' and Roman (re-)creations
This is because the dominant pattern of image motion is then a translatory flow in the front-to-back direction.
Landing Strategies in Honeybees, and Possible Applications to Autonomous Airborne Vehicles
By the conventional interpretation, translatory and centripetal accelerations can be regarded as two extremes of the motion vector.
New aspects of vacuum kinematics
4) His specific concern is with two examples of "folk" oral/musical traditions, where "the translatory ground is acoustic, not textual," and where the problem, therefore, "is more properly described as how to hear meaning in alien and unexpected sounds.
Signifying the blues
There is no reference to the Latin poetry in the 'Dictionary': here, in an important area of Herbert studies too often ignored, Ray's thorough, translatory approach would have been really useful.
A George Herbert Companion
If the disc is displaced, normal opening and closing of the mouth can result in an unusual translatory movement between the condyle and the disc, which is felt as click or pop (figure 3).
Temporomandibular disorders in the medical practice
12) A fundamental aspect of his theory was a theorem of equipartition: he postulated that the total amount of energy of translatory motion of the particles was uniformly distributed over the three directions of translation.
Philosophy and the kinetic theory of gases

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