General Ledger Steps
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 the General Ledger Setup topic.
- 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 AccountsNote: 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
TransactionsNote: If you use a second, separate Analytical Ledger (as is traditional in some European countries), see About Analytical Accounting for more information.