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From EMEA Localizations (G74), choose French Reports
From French Reports (G093151), choose General Journal
According to commercial law and the French 1982 Chart of Accounts, businesses in France are required to maintain a record of all accounting entries in the General Journal (Livre Journal or Journal Général). These entries must be recorded in the General Journal chronologically by the date on which the entries are posted to the General Ledger. Within the same date, order the entries by:
Time order in which the entries are entered or posted, or
Type of transaction, such as purchase, sale, and miscellaneous expense
Account number order
Businesses also have the option to use the General Journal program to centralize all the accounting entries that are recorded in auxiliary journals (Système Centraliseur). In this case, the entries in the General Journal are a monthly summary of the detailed entries in the auxiliary journals. The guidelines for recording accounting entries in the auxiliary journals is the same as for the General Journal. That is, all entries must be in chronological order. The General Journal can be divided into as many auxiliary journals as the business requires, for example:
Purchases journal
Sales journal
Cash journal
Based on the legislation of the General Chart of Accounts, base the summary of the General Journal program on debits and credits and not on a cumulative balance. In addition, businesses can summarize the journal under the condition that all documents that are required to verify the daily entries are kept on file.
The format of the General Journal, although not exhaustively defined by the law, should be, in the case of an information system, in the screen of "electronic documents" that are printed on a report. The "electronic documents" should offer all of the guarantees in terms of disallowing the modification or deletion of the accounting entries once the entries have been validated.
The General Journal must be kept in French. No other languages are allowed. In addition, all accounting entries must be represented in the local currency (French francs). It is possible to keep the General Journal in Euros, but only if a double accounting system in French francs is also maintained. In some cases, it is possible to have specific transactions in a foreign currency with the conversion in French francs at the end of the fiscal year.
When you run the General Journal program, the system prints:
Prints a report of all the entries in the General Ledger Transactions file in chronological order. The entries are the same entries that are printed on the General Ledger report, but sorted by G/L date rather than account.
Prints the entries in detail with one line for each account and one line for each document number and type.
Additional features of the General Journal report include:
Option to print by period and fiscal year or by date range
Ability to accumulate multiple ledger types
Inclusion of the company in the header
Option to print by object and subsidiary or category code
User defined report totals, including:
General total
Total by company
Total by period
Total by batch type or batch type
User defined date sequencing, including:
Sequence by G/L date, document number and document type
Sequence by batch, document number and document type
Verify that you have the correct offset method selected in the Accounts Receivable Constants. See Set Up A/R Constants in the JD Edwards World Accounts Receivable Guide.