Posting General Journal Entries (J58)

Posting General Journal Entries (J58)

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To learn more about

how a general ledger
accountant posts a
general journal entry,
follow this interactive
tutorial.

1. To see the list of

pages for the General
Ledger space, open
the More dropdown.

2. Select the Journal

Entries page.

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3. To open the app,

select the Post
General Journal
Entries tile.

You want to record a

business transaction
that has no source
document, such as
an expense paid with
petty cash.

Note that the current

date displays as the
posting date and
determines the
posting period for
your transaction in
the database.

4. To select the
Journal Entry Date,
open the date picker.

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5. Define the current

date as the journal
entry date.

For this tutorial,

select January 6,
2020.

6. In the Journal
Entry Type field,
enter SA and choose
the Company Code
field.

7. In the Company
Code field, enter
1710 and press
Enter.

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8. In the Transaction
Currency field, enter
USD and press
Enter.

In the Line Items

pane, you can enter
the transaction
details, such as
the G/L account
number and the
credit or debit
amount.

9. For the first line

item, enter 63002000
as the G/L account
number and choose
the Debit field.

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10. In the Debit field,

enter 100 and press
Enter.

The red triangle

indicates that you
have not yet
completed all the
required details for
this line item, for
example, tax
information.

11. In the Tax Code

field, enter
I0 to indicate the
expense is a non-
taxable transaction
and press Enter.

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12. For this expense,

at least one
transaction
assignment element
is required.

For this tutorial, to

assign the expense
to a Cost Center
enter 17101101 and
press Enter.

13. To collapse the

line item, choose the
arrow.

14. For the second

line item, in the G/L
Account field, enter
10010000 and
choose the Credit
field.

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15. In the Credit field,

enter 100 and choose
Post.

16. You see a

message confirming
that the journal
entries were posted
successfully.

Choose OK.

You
have successfully
posted a general
journal entry.

This concludes the

interactive tutorial.