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Source Journal Maintenance (On the Fly)

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Source Journal

This field displays the new source journal entered in General Journal Entry, Recurring Journal Entry, or Transaction Journal Entry. This field can only be viewed.

 

Copy From

Enter an existing source journal to copy information from. Click the Lookup button to list all source journals.

 

Description

Enter a description for the source journal. The description is assigned to each register and journal entry that uses this source journal.

 Entry Sample

Monthly Allocations

 

Journal Type

Select the source journal type. During General Journal Entry, Recurring Journal Entry, and Transaction Journal Entry, only non-financial accounts can be entered if the associated journal type is non-financial. Similarly, only financial-type accounts can be entered if the journal type is financial.

Note: If Non-Financial is selected, the Next Register field is not available.

 

Next Journal

Enter a number to be assigned to the next journal entry created in General Journal Entry, Transaction Journal Entry, or Recurring Journal Entry. If you do not enter a number in either General Journal Entry or Transaction Journal Entry, the number displayed here is assigned automatically to that entry. This number is then incremented automatically.

Note: The journal entry number is reset to 000001 according to your selection in the Reset Journal Numbers During field in the General Ledger Options window.

 Entry Sample

000001

 

Next Register

Enter a register number that will be used by the module using this source journal code when posting to the General Ledger module. This number is incremented automatically after each posting to the General Ledger module and provides an audit trail of all postings back to the source journal.

Note: The register number is reset to 000001 according to your selection in the Reset Register Numbers During field in the General Ledger Options window or when the register number reaches 009999.

 Entry Sample

000001