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 non-Lawson journal entries are transferred to Multi-Book Ledger with a status of Released, you typically 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.

Release journal entries

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


To	Use
Release an individual journal entry	Ledger Journal Entry (ML40.1) Define Ledger Journal (ML40.2) Ledger Journal Entry (ML40.8)
Release one or more journal entries for a company	Ledger Journal Control (ML45.1) Batch Ledger Journal Control (ML146)

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

After a journal entry is released, it can no longer be maintained on Ledger Journal Entry (ML40.1). Maintaining journal entries