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Changing journal entries

Note: When you change an auto-reversing journal entryClosed, Ajera does not automatically update the other entry.
  1. From the Manage menu, click Journal Entries.
  2. Multi-company only. Select a company.
  1. Click the Existing tab to view your journal entries. If you made entries in the current session, the Existing tab contains your entries from the session. Otherwise, it contains your entries for the current month.
  2. To see entries for another time period:
  • Click (Change View).
  • Click the date or time period of the entries you want to view. To choose a range of dates, click Select Dates and enter the beginning and ending dates in the fields that appear to the right.
  • Clear the New entries only check box to see existing entries. To view transactions from the current session, select it.
  • Click OK. The window reappears with the journal entries you wanted.
  1. View the sort order or appearance of columns differently, as needed.
  2. To add, delete, or change a transaction, click it and click Edit.

Add a transaction:

Begin entering the information on the next available row.

Delete a transaction:

Click the row of the transaction and click Delete.

Change a transaction:

Field

Description

General journal entry information:

Accounting date

The date Ajera uses to determine the period for which the journal entry appears on financial statement

Reference

The identifier for the journal entry. It prints on financial reports

Description

A description for the journal entry. It prints on financial reports

Ajera adds the suffix -Reversed to an auto-reversing journal entryClosed.

Notes

Any notes about the journal entry

Basis

A journal entry in Ajera automatically reflects both an accrual and cash accounting basisClosed. If the accounting basis is currently set to accrual only or cash only, a message indicating the accounting basis appears at the bottom of the window.

To change the accounting basis, click the accounting basis you want. The accounting basis applies to the entire set of transactions that make up a journal entry.

Transaction details (in the table):

Account

The account associated with the transaction

If you select an allocated account, a message appears, confirming that you want to distribute overhead expenses among specified departments.

Multi-company only. If you select an intercompany account, see Entering journal entries to intercompany accounts.

Department

unavailable in ajeraCore unless you have the Departments add-on

If you are using departments, the department associated with the transaction

Debit amount, Credit amount

Depending on the normal balance of the account, you can enter either a credit or a debit for a transaction. Type the amount for the transaction in the credit or debit field, as applicable.

Note:

You cannot enter a negative value for a transaction. However, if necessary, you can enter a credit to an account that normally contains a debit, or a debit to an account that normally contains a credit.

The credit or debit amount that currently causes the journal entry to be out of balance appears at the bottom of the table. When you finish entering all your transactions, In Balance appears to indicate that your entry is in balance.

Company

Multi-company only. The company associated with the transaction

Optional columns:

Notes

Any notes about the transaction in the journal entry - These notes print on the GL Entry inquiry when you add the Notes column to the inquiry.

Attachments

Any attachments related to the item

You can click the attachments icon in the table to add, change, or open attachments.

The column displays if there are no attachments, and if there are attachments. 

  1. To cancel changes to a row, right-click and click Cancel. To delete a row after canceling or accepting changes, right-click and click Delete.
  2. Click Save.
  3. If you selected the Enter accounting date check box on the Company > Preferences > General tab, you may be asked to enter an accounting date. Either change or leave the accounting date that Ajera suggests; it is the earliest date allowable. Click OK.
  4. To change another journal entry, repeat these steps.
  5. Click Close.

See also

Entering journal entries

Deleting journal entries

How Ajera validates and assigns dates

 

 

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