APPROVE JEs

If your firm's accounting operations policies include segregation of duties, perhaps to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or your firm otherwise requires that journal entries be approved, the authorized approvers in your firm must use this screen to select a journal entry and:

If you launch this screen when the JE Approval feature has not been set up in the JE Approval Settings subtask of G/L Settings, you will receive a message that "JE approvals are not required in G/L Settings." Click OK to close the message dialog and screen.

If you are listed as an authorized journal entry approver in the JE Approver Settings screen of the General Ledger, you can access this screen.

If you are not listed as an authorized journal entry approver, you will receive a message that you are not authorized to approve journal entries. Click OK for read-only access to the screen.

Approver

This non-editable field displays the name of the currently logged-in user.

JE Type

Enter the journal entry type, or click the drop-down list and select the type of journal entries you want to view for approval.

Fill Table

Click this button to populate the table with journal entries:

Table Window

JE No

Costpoint populates this field with the journal entry's number when you click the Fill Table button.

JE Amount

Costpoint populates this field with the journal entry's amount when you click the Fill Table button. This is the higher of the debit or credit amount for the journal entry.

Entry Date

Costpoint populates this field with the journal entry's data entry date when you click the Fill Table button.

Appr

Click in this field and enter "Y" to approve this journal entry, "N" to reject it.

JE Description

Costpoint populates this field with the journal entry's description when you click the Fill Table button.

Over Budget

Costpoint populates this read-only field when you click the Fill Table button.

JE Detail

Click this button to open the JE Detail subtask, where you can view journal entry line details.

Exchange Rate

This button is enabled if the journal entry's transactional currency differs from the company's functional currency.

Click this button to open the Exchange Rates subtask, where you can view the data entered in the Exchange Rate subtask of the Enter JEs screen for this journal entry.