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Financial Office Tip - Foreign Currency

Harvard’s Travel and Reimbursement Office (TRO) has a link to a handy currency conversion tool: http://vpf-web.harvard.edu/ofs/travel/index.shtml.

In the middle column click the link “Access Mileage, Exchange and Per Diem Rates”

Click “Currency Exchange Rates”

Enter the amount, date to exchange, and the currencies to convert from and to. Click “convert now”

The date to use is not the date you doing the conversion, but the date of the expense. If there are numerous charges for a trip you can add all the charges and do one conversion using the last date of the trip.

The next screen will give you the conversion. Please print this page and attach it to the receipt that you have converted. This helps the Financial Office figure out how you got the amount on the UEF. The Financial Office needs to send this page with any receipts that go to TRO.

As always, if there are any questions please call your contact in the Financial Office.