Task guide
Post a manual journal
Prepare a journal the posting rules do not make for you, give the reason, and have it approved where it is above the firm's threshold.
Prepare it
- Open Ledger, Journals, and choose New journal.
- Enter the date, the description and the reason.
- Add the lines, each an account with a debit or a credit, and a matter or party where the account needs one.
- Post it. It must balance before it can post.
Approval
A journal above the firm's threshold waits under Ledger, Approvals for somebody other than the person who prepared it. It posts only when approved.
Reverse it
A posted journal cannot be edited. Choose Reverse on it, with a reason, to post its mirror image on a day you choose, then post the right journal.
Opening balances
When the firm starts on the system, its opening balances are entered once under Opening balances, as one journal on the day it starts.
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