About Source Journals

You can define an unlimited number of reports, called source journals, that you can use to meet a variety of transaction reporting requirements.

Source journals list posted batch entries by their source codes. Typical source journals are a cash receipts journal, a cash disbursements journal, and a check register. You construct the source journals by entering a list of source codes to be included in each source journal.

You can select transactions within the predefined source journals by account number, segment, account group, fiscal period, reference, date, batch number, and posting sequence number.

You can also include transaction optional fields, account optional fields, select account groups by sort code range, and use rolled up amounts.

In a multicurrency system, you can also select and report source journal transactions by their source currency.

Other examples of source journals you can print include:

• All details that have the same source code, such as all credit card payments, all credit memos, and all checks.
• All details entered on a particular day (specifying all source codes for a single date).
• All details entered in a particular batch.
• All details that contain a common reference.
• All details posted to a division, department, or any accounting entity associated with a segment.
• You can include Transaction Optional Fields data with any of the journals.

Note: You do not have to define source journals.

Changing the Standard Source Journal Reports

If you want to change the information in a report, or the order that the report is sorted (beyond the choices provided by the G/L program), you can define a new report, or modify an existing report. General Ledger report definitions are found in the ENG subdirectory of the program directory. The program directory is in the installation folder under GLxxx, where xxx is the version number of the General Ledger program.

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