When you submit, approve, or post a journal, the system validates the journal. The system checks for these conditions:
The period must be a base period for the scenario’s base frequency.
When you post or unpost a journal, the period must be opened
The journal must have the appropriate status for the action to be performed.
The entity and the parent must be valid dimensions. For regular journals, the entity must allow adjustments. If you are posting a journal to Parent Currency Adjs, you must enter a valid parent. Also, the entity must be a child of the specified parent for the journal entity.
If you are posting a journal to a node, the parent must allow adjustments for child entities. The entity must be a child of the specified parent.
Node journals must have valid parent-entity combinations. The system also checks for the Organization by Period application setting when you attempt to post node journals. The entity must be active for the parent for the period in which you are posting.
The account must be valid. It must be an Asset, Liability, Revenue, Expense, Balance, Flow, or Balance Recurring account. The account must be a base account and cannot be calculated (that is, designated as calculated in metadata). It cannot be calculated through a roll-up; that is, the account cannot have children.
All other dimensions must be valid. The ICP dimension cannot be ICP Top, ICP Entities, or left blank, but you can select ICP None. If an ICP is specified, the account must be set up as an ICP account.
The custom dimensions cannot be designated as calculated in metadata and cannot be calculated through a roll-up; that is, the custom dimensions cannot have children.
For a balanced journal, the total debits must equal the total credits. For a balanced by entity regular journal, the total debits must equal the total credits for each entity. For a balanced-by-entity node journal, the total debits must equal the total credits for each node. For a balanced-by-entity node journal, the parent and children entities must have the same currency. If the Value dimension is Entity Currency, the parent entities in the journal can have different currencies, but they must have the same currency as their children entities.
The cell cannot be designated as a NoInput cell using rules.