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SECTION 6.5.3 – GENERAL LEDGER AUTO-JOURNALS MENU

 

Auto-journals are special daemon records that tell HiFinance to create journals in the General Ledger on a regular basis. Each time SUPERVISOR, or any other user who is tagged for this function, logs onto the system, the programs will check if there are any auto-journals to be posted, and if so will automatically create the postings. Examples of auto-journals include provisional payments, depreciation payments, etc.

 

The GENERAL LEDGER AUTO-JORUNALS MENU is accessed as item 3 on the GENERAL LEDGER UTILITIES MENU. On selecting this menu the following screen will be displayed:

 

 

To return to the GENERAL LEDGER UTILITIES MENU, press <ESC>.

 

Fields available on the AUTO JOURNALS MASTER file.

 

Name                  Comments

 

DEBIT TO ACCOUNT   This must refer to an existing General Ledger account. The value of the journal will be debited (added) to this account.

 

CREDIT TO ACCOUNT  This must refer to an existing General Ledger account. The value of the journal will be credited (subtracted) from this account.

 

DESCRIPTION This is a description of the journal. This description will be used when generating the journal. It may be up to 50 character long. It is a compulsory field.

 

JOURNAL NAME      This is a short description of the journal. If you leave the field blank, it will be filled with the first 20 characters of the DESCRIPTION field.

 

REFERENCE      This is a number from 0 to 999999. It can be used to link the computer-generated journal to a manual record.

 

VALUE                This is the value of the journal. The value must be greater than zero.

 

CREATE JOURNAL Here you tell HiFinance when you wish to create the journals. You can choose to create the journals on a daily basis, eg every 7 days, or you can specify a monthly basis, eg every 3 months. Also, you must specify when the journals will start. If you backdate the start-date, HiFinance will automatically create any missed postings (next time you log in).

 

ENDING             This tells HiFinance to stop posting journals. After this date, the journal is dead. It does not have to be removed, unless you need the space. You can specify that the journal should stop on a date or after a specified number of postings or when a certain dollar value is reached. You can also specify a combination of these.

 

SEND WARNING MAIL ON          This can be used to specify to the system that a warning message should be sent to someone on a specific date. This can be used to warn that a journal should be checked or that it is about to end, etc. The message is sent via HiFinance’s internal mail system. The mail is sent to the user defined in SYSTEM DEFAULTS. (See SECTION 7.1.2.)

 

NOTES                This is an area where you may enter unstructured information about the journal. This field is also attached to the mail record if you choose to send warning mail (see above).

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