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General Ledger Setup

Before you can begin processing in the General Ledger (G/L), you must set up some basic information.

This includes:

  • Accounting periods
  • Chart of Accounts
  • Beginning account balances
Related topics
  • Setting Up Accounting Periods
  • Setting Up the Chart of Accounts
  • Setting Up Beginning Account Balances
  • Finance
    • Financial Reporting Tool
    • About Accounting Periods
    • Maintaining Accounting Periods
    • About Journal Entries
    • Accounting References and Distribution Journal Entries
    • Generating the GST Input Tax Credit Report
    • Generating the PST Input Tax Credit Report
    • Running the Product Sales Analysis Report
    • Running the Account Balances Report
    • Viewing A/L Posted Transactions
    • Viewing A/L Posted Transactions Account Summaries
    • Multi-Site A/L Posted Transactions
    • Calculating Exchange Rate Gains and Losses
    • Running the Cash Impact Report
    • Using Landed Costs with the Cash Impact Report
    • Formatting Account Numbers
    • Changing Account Number Format
    • Distributing Expenses Among Accounts
    • Setting Up Commodity Codes
    • Setting Payroll Interface Parameters
    • Processing Payroll for a Partner
    • Exporting SRO Transactions to an External Payroll System
    • Payroll Export File Format
    • Uploading Journal Information from an External Payroll System
    • Payroll Journal Upload File Format
    • Adding a Quote Section
    • About Analytical Accounting
    • Analytical Ledger Setup
    • About Realized and Unrealized Gains and Losses
    • Setting Up Information for the EC Sales List Report
    • Generating the EC Sales List Report
    • Financial Statements
    • General Ledger
      • General Ledger Overview
      • General Ledger Setup
      • General Ledger Steps
      • Setting Up Accounting Periods
      • Setting Up the Chart of Accounts
      • Setting Up Beginning Account Balances
      • Creating a User-Defined Journal
      • Deleting a User-Defined Journal
      • Posting a Journal
      • Validating Journal Transaction
      • Printing Journal Transactions
      • Creating and Posting Recurring Journal Entries
      • Creating Auto-Reversing Transactions
      • Creating Financial Statements with Statistical Information
      • Creating Journal Entries
      • Creating Statistical Accounts
      • Compressing Journal Transactions
      • Performing a Mass Journal Post
      • Running the Journal Transaction Report
      • Compressing General Ledger Transactions
      • Entering Distributions to a G/L Account
      • Manually Entering Distributions to a G/L Account
      • Journal Selection
      • Purging a Journal
      • Setting Up Bank Codes
      • Setting Up Bank Addresses
      • Closing the Year for General Ledger
      • Example: G/L Year End Closing
      • Posting to the A/R Distribution Journal
      • Running the Bank Reconciliation Report
      • Running the Journal Control Number Report
      • Posting to the A/P Distribution Journal
      • Accounting References and Distribution Journal Entries
      • Viewing Journal Account Summaries
      • Viewing Accounting Period Control Number Sequences
      • End User Type Accounting
      • Running the General Ledger Report
      • Running the General Ledger Worksheet Report
      • Viewing G/L Posted Transactions
      • Viewing G/L Posted Transactions Account Summaries
      • Deleting a Ledger Transaction
      • Running the Ledger Control Number Report
      • Setting Up Period Sorting Methods
      • Viewing Posted A/P Transactions
      • Viewing Posted A/R Transactions
      • Viewing Details for a Posted A/P Voucher Pre-Register Transaction
      • Viewing Posted Transactions
      • Recalculating Journal Balances
      • Consolidation Overview
      • Setting Up a Consolidation Reporting Structure
      • Setting or Changing the Reports To Entity
      • Consolidating Ledger Records
      • Reconsolidating Ledger Records
      • Rebuilding An Entity Database
      • Uploading Journal Information from an External Payroll System
      • Rebalancing Ledger Period Totals
      • Posting to General Ledger - Actual Costing
      • Posting to General Ledger - Standard Costing
      • FASB 52 Overview
      • Copying Ledger Balances into Budgets/Plans
      • Creating and Copying G/L Account Numbers
      • Gathering Statistical Information
      • Year End Procedures Overview
      • Extended Analysis with Dimensions and Attributes
      • Journal References
    • Accounting
    • Accounts Receivable (A/R)
    • Vouchers
    • Accounts Payable (A/P)
    • Account Unit Codes