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Maintaining general ledger accounts

Use General Ledger Maintenance to view and maintain information about individual general ledger accounts; these accounts are used to record financial activity at your organisation.

Also see Accounting structure in the Finance manual.

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Maintain:

  • general information about the general ledger account
  • flags to determine how the account is used.

General Ledger Maintenance - General tab

Maintain sub-allocations at your organisation, used to identify projects.

General Ledger Maintenance - Sub Allocations tab

You can:

  • view finance reports that the general ledger account is included in
  • add the general ledger account to a finance report that it is not already set up in
  • modify the settings of the general ledger account in the finance report
  • delete the account from one or more finance reports.

General Ledger Maintenance - Finance Reports tab

You can:

  • view the amounts budgeted, allocated and actually spent by month for a general ledger account
  • calculate monthly budgets by allocating a portion to each
  • maintain the budget amounts and allocated amounts.

General Ledger Maintenance - Budget/Actual tab

View general ledger postings to this account.

General Ledger Maintenance - Postings tab

View:

  • individual journals that have updated the account
  • a running balance to keep track of the activity on the account.

General Ledger Maintenance - Journals tab

View:

  • complete purchase orders
  • incomplete purchases orders.

General Ledger Maintenance - Purchase Orders tab

View and maintain documents relating to general ledger accounts.

General Ledger Maintenance - DocMan tab

View security settings for this account.

Maintain users who are authorised to:

  • maintain this account
  • maintain all accounts.

General Ledger Maintenance - Security tab

Maintain user-defined forms used within General Ledger Maintenance.

General Ledger Maintenance - User Forms tab

You can:

  • view audit details of who created and maintained this account
  • add a comment about the account.

General Ledger Maintenance - Maint tab

Last modified: 5/03/2013 12:39:06 PM

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Searching for general ledger accounts

Creating new general ledger accounts

General Ledger Maintenance - General tab

General Ledger Maintenance - Sub Allocations tab

General Ledger Maintenance - Finance Reports tab

General Ledger Maintenance - Budget/Actual tab

General Ledger Maintenance - Postings tab

General Ledger Maintenance - Journals tab

General Ledger Maintenance - Purchase Orders tab

General Ledger Maintenance - DocMan tab

General Ledger Maintenance - Security tab

General Ledger Maintenance - User Forms tab

General Ledger Maintenance - Maint tab

© 2013 Synergetic Management Systems. Published 15 October 2013.

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