Daily Work Menu

The Daily Work menu contains commands used to complete routine General Ledger tasks.

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Daily Work Menu Items

Enter Manual Transactions

Maintains manual journal entries and reversing journal entries for the General Ledger.  Manual journal entries are also known as adjusting entries, and do not originate from interfaces with other software modules.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [a] [m]

Create Reversing Entries

Generates reversal journal entries for unposted adjustments made in the previous period.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [a] [v]

Create Standard Entries

Generates live journal entry transactions from the standard entry templates created during Recurring-Standard Entries Maintenance.  A standard entry is a convenient method for creating journal entries that are similar every period.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [a] [s]

Create Recurring Entries

Generates live journal entry transactions from the recurring entry templates created during Recurring-Standard Entries Maintenance.  A recurring entry is a convenient method for creating journal entries that are the same every period.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [a] [r]

Create Step Down Allocations

Generates the journal entry transactions for the predefined allocations.  An Allocation Account, which is created during Step-Down Allocation Maintenance, defines how to automatically disburse a Period Balance from one account to other accounts.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [a] [c]

General Journal Inquiry

Displays the journal entries for a specific Period.  You can limit the displayed transactions by several selection criteria, including Account Number, Date, and Journal Code.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [a] [q]

Account Balance Inquiry

Displays Period Balance information by account so you can compare up to three different data sources at a time including the current Chart of Accounts, history, and budgets.  For the specified Account Number, there are three comparison columns with each row representing a Period.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [a] [a]

General Journal Listing

Prints journal entry transactions for a specific Period.  You can specify if you want to print posted or unposted transactions.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [a] [j]

General Journal Exception Report

Prints journal entries that may be in error.  You can review this report to check for problems before running the Post Journal Entries routine.

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [a] [e]

Post Journal Entries

Updates the Account Period Balances from the journal entry transactions for a specific period (or for the Year-End closing period).

Keyboard shortcut:  [ALT] [a] [p]

Account Master Explorer

Displays all or specified general ledger account balances and the transaction activity that makes up the balances, if desired.

Journal Explorer

Displays all or specified General Ledger journal transactions for a selected time period.  In addition, you can drill down and view the associated expense or cash receipts details for the appropriate transactions.