General Ledger Steps

Note:  Before any General Ledger processing can be performed, you must set up the Chart of Accounts, enter beginning account balances, and define your accounting periods. For more information, see General Ledger Setup.

Closing the Year for General Ledger

Copying Ledger Balances into Budgets/Plans

Creating and Maintaining Budgets and Plans

Setting up Account Allocations

Creating and Posting Recurring Journal Entries

Creating a User-Defined Journal

Creating Auto-Reversing Transactions

Creating Journal Entries for a User-Defined Journal

Deleting a User-Defined Journal

Identifying Missing Information in a Journal

Monitoring financial data on the Controller Home form

Posting a Journal

Preparing a Bank Reconciliation

Printing a Financial Statement

Creating Statistical Accounts

Note:  Before printing a financial statement, you must have already defined its header, columns and lines, as applicable. For more information, see Financial Statement Setup.

Purging a Journal

Recalculating Journal Balances

Using the Journal Builder to Enter Site-Specific Journal Transactions

Note:  If you use a second, separate Analytical Ledger (as is traditional in some European countries), see About Analytical Accounting for more information.
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