to select, the identifier for the employee
authorized to approve journal entries. When you select an employee, his
or her name appears in the Name
column.If your firm's accounting operations policies include segregation of duties, perhaps to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or your firm has otherwise decided to require that journal entries be approved, you can set up an internal process for approving journal entries. Use this screen to set up the employees who are granted rights to approve journal entries entered by data entry staff.
Before filling out this screen, you must use the Approval Settings button in G/L Settings to open the JE Approval Settings subtask.
Enter, or use to select, the identifier for the employee
authorized to approve journal entries. When you select an employee, his
or her name appears in the Name
column.
This field displays the name of the approver whose employee ID you selected in Approver ID.
This field's default value is "No." Select "Yes" to allow this approver to approve their own journal entries. Otherwise, accept the default value.
Use this button to open the Link Users subtask, in which you can set up an approver to approve journal entries for a group of data entry users.