Google Finance ties into Google Sheets with the helpful function =GoogleFinance(). You can use this to quickly and easily convert currencies in your Blink Reports for Xero spreadsheet.
For example, say a business operates in the EU, and thus in Euros, but you want to report your financials in US dollars. Wouldn't it be easier to have a cell in your spreadsheet that tells you the exchange rate at a glance?
In our case, we've simply entered the =GoogleFinance() function in the report parameters, so that we can now both call it in other sheets and reference it at a glance. It's best if this goes on the Report Parameters sheet so that there's no chance of it being overwritten by data coming in from Xero via Blink Reports.
In a blank cell, use the following function to automatically grab up-to-date exchange rates from Google Finance:
=GoogleFinance("CURRENCY:<SourceCurrencySymbol><ToCurrencySymbol>")So if you want the Euros to US dollars exchange rate, the formula would read:
=GoogleFinance("CURRENCY:EURUSD")The formula works with a number of common ISO 4217 currency codes, so most major currencies will be easily converted all from within your spreadsheet.
