Costs may be incurred in one country, for a leading delivery unit in another country, and then delivered to a customer in a third country. If there is no currency union like in the EU, this can lead to the costs being tracked in three different currencies:

• Source currency represents the cost of that material, labor, travel or other direct cost in the original source e.g. vendor, labor pool or delivery organization currency. You should include the source currency as a dimension when reporting on cost in source currency
• Company currency represents the cost in the currency of the primary delivery organization or your internal group which is leading this bid
• Customer currency represents the currency the customer requested the proposal to be submitted in. Costs are automatically converted into all three currencies using  SAP or proposal-specific exchange rates..

To view the costs in these different currencies select one, two or three of the cost measures in the window to "Change Rows & Columns" of the costing workbench.

1. Cost in source currency and in company currency have both been selected as measures in the example above
2. Cost in company currency and customer currency can be displayed with the appropriate currency symbol, as shown above. The cost in source currency can vary from one row to the next so a separate field is required
3. When cost in source currency was selected the source currency was automatically pulled in as a dimension, resulting in separate sub-totals for cost in each source currency, within each Phase & WBS combination (in this case). It is recommended not to remove the automatically added dimension for "Source Currency" unless you know all source currency costs are for example in USD.