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Foreign currency period-end revaluation: bid and ask selection · case 04

Foreign payables are understated at period end.

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Case contract

x = {'bid': [num, den], 'ask': [num, den], 'accounts': [[name, 'asset'|'liability', monetary, foreign units, carried home cents]]}. Monetary assets are revalued at the bid rate and monetary liabilities at the ask rate: home = foreign * num / den rounded half-up per account. Non-monetary accounts keep their carried amount. Unrealized gain sums (new - carried) for assets and (carried - new) for liabilities. Return {'balances': [[name, home]], 'unrealized_gain'}.

Why this case matters

Ledger software must keep debits equal to credits and apply normal-balance, period and cutoff rules exactly; small sign or boundary slips silently misstate financial statements.

One recorded failure

Sample boundary fixture

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Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
regression: bid and ask selection	`{"balances": [["a0", 1499], ["a1", 3], ["a2", 8]], "unrealized_gain": -997}`	`{"balances": [["a0", 1998], ["a1", 3], ["a2", 10]], "unrealized_gain": -1498}`	Failed

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