Releasing journal entries

After you review unreleased journal entries and make necessary corrections, you can release the journal entries. Releasing a journal entry changes the journal entry status to Released, makes the journal entry transaction lines available for posting, and, for an intercompany journal entry, creates the intercompany balancing entries. Because subsystem journal entries are transferred to General Ledger with a status of Released, you will only need to release manual journal entries. This procedure describes the process for releasing journal entries.

A journal entry must be in balance and, for a company that uses control totals, must have matching control and system amounts before you release the journal entry.

Access the form that you want to use to release journal entries.


To	Use
Release an individual journal entry	Journal Entry (GL40.1) Define Journal (GL40.2) Journal Entry (GL40.8)
Release one or more journal entries for a company	Journal Control (GL45.1) Batch Journal Control (GL146)

Select the journal entries that you want to release and select the Release special action.

Note: When you release a journal entry, your ID is logged as the Hold Removal Operator and will be printed on the Journal Edit Listing (GL240) report.

After a journal entry is released, it can no longer be maintained on Journal Entry (GL40.1). See Maintaining journal entries.