Krister Magnusson
President & CEO

Yes. First of all, a big excuse for the concern regarding the technical issue we had with Teams this morning. We're doing this completely ourselves, so we don't have an agency and so on. So I hope you -- and I think there was some sort of update with it what I heard regarding Teams. So there was some concern there. But now I'm really glad that you all are on this call. And as usually, this call will be recorded. So we put that out on our web page later on. And also, as usual, Maria Fogelstrom, our CFO, joined this call and will help me answer questions and so on, if any.

And also, Maria, yes, for questions, how to do when you want to ask questions.

Maria Fogelstrom
Chief Financial Officer

[Operator Instructions]

Krister Magnusson
President & CEO

Good. Thank you. Thank you. And I will start by sharing my screen. And I hope you all see that screen now. Jumping directly into the numbers here for the Q1 reporting. And as you can see or saw that the order intake is decreased by 18%. We have a big currency effect in the quarter, and I will come back in a separate slide about the currency effect and how that is calculated and why and so on.

That's been quite cautious. Also the Q4 last year in order intake was quite strong and that also impacted the Q1 order intake this quarter. But as I said, a big currency effect. Looking at the sales, sales number was down actually in consolidated Swedish krona numbers by 16% -- and actually, the currency effect