{"id":694,"date":"2018-06-28T14:06:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T14:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/?p=694"},"modified":"2024-02-19T14:55:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T14:55:28","slug":"currency-and-accounting-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/training\/currency-and-accounting-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Currency and Accounting Format"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you work with monetary values, there are two different formats you can use:&nbsp;<strong>Currency<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Accounting.<\/strong>&nbsp;You can find them in&nbsp;<strong>HOME &gt;&gt; Number &gt;&gt; Number Format<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/currency-accounting.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-695\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also find the accounting format under the&nbsp;<strong>Accounting Number Format<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"141\" height=\"94\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/accounting-number-format.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-696\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When you expand this button, you will see a list of the most popular currencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"206\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/popular-currencies.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-697\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need more control over the formatting. For example, if you want to set the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/examples\/decimal-places\/\">decimal places<\/a>, you can right-click the cell that contains the value, then select\u00a0<strong>Format<\/strong><strong> Cells&#8230;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the left side, in the category box, you will find two items:&nbsp;<strong>Currency<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Accounting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"format wp-block-heading\">Which type of formatting to choose<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The accounting format is based on the currency format. Both allow you to select a currency and set the number of decimal points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides these similarities, there are also a few differences:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>In the\u00a0<strong>accounting format<\/strong>,\u00a0the currency sign is located just off the left edge of the cell, and in the\u00a0<strong>currency format<\/strong>\u00a0at the beginning of the value.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the&nbsp;<strong>accounting format<\/strong>, there is an extra space between the value and the right edge of the cell.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>accounting format<\/strong>\u00a0displays \u201c-\u201c when the value is 0.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"format wp-block-heading\">Example 1:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/currency-accounting-example.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/currency-accounting-example.png 400w, https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/currency-accounting-example-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you work with monetary values, there are two different formats you can use:&nbsp;Currency&nbsp;and&nbsp;Accounting.&nbsp;You can find them in&nbsp;HOME &gt;&gt; Number &gt;&gt; Number Format&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Currency and Accounting Format<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn about using currency and accounting formats in Excel, as well as how to control formatting and choose between the two. 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