Accounting Currency

It's the root of a financial mismatch on numbers all the time. A company sells product all over the world and gets paid in different currencies. They then convert those currencies to the home country's, and since we're somewhat jingoistic here at Shmoop, we'll just presume everything converts to U.S. Dollars. Well, there's a chance that the conversion rate of Euros to Dollars was slightly different at one bank versus another, so that the final totals don't match exactly, and a good bean counter will catch this error fast.