Common Elements Used in General Ledger
Field or Control |
Description |
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Account |
ChartField that identifies the nature of a transaction for corporate accounts. |
Accounting Date |
Date for accounting entries for an activity. |
Affiliate |
ChartField used to map transactions between business units when using a single interunit account. |
Alt Acct (alternate account) |
ChartField that identifies the nature of a transaction for statutory accounts. This field appears only if you enable the Alternate Account option for your organization and for the general ledger business unit. |
As of Date |
The last date for which a report or process includes data. |
Balance |
Amount of an item that is still open (unpaid). |
Budget Ref (budget reference) |
ChartField that identifies unique control budgets when individual budgets share budget keys and overlapping budget periods. |
Business Unit |
An identification code that represents a high-level organization of business information. You can use a business unit to define regional or departmental units within a larger organization. |
Category |
ChartField value that represents the category for a project transaction in Project Costing. A category further defines a source type. For example, if you have a source type of labor, you might have categories for architect labor, carpenter labor, and plumber labor. This field is available only if you have Project Costing. |
Chartfield 1 to Chartfield 3 |
ChartFields that you configure to meet your organization's requirements. |
Class |
ChartField that identifies a particular appropriation when you combine it with a Fund, DeptID, Program Code, and Budget Reference. Group of customers in a trade, such as grocers or mass merchandisers. |
Currency |
Code that identifies the type of currency for an amount, such as USD or EUR. |
Dept (department) |
ChartField that indicates who is responsible for or affected by the transaction. |
Description |
Freeflow text up to 30 characters. |
Long Description |
Long Description link on all ChartField pages opens a secondary page to enter additional information regarding the ChartField value, such as fund name, sources, type of fund, donor information, or grants. |
Division |
Geographic area within an organization. |
Document Sequence or Document Sequencing |
Click to open a page where you can enter document sequencing information. This option is available only if you enable the document sequencing feature for the general ledger business unit. |
Effective Date |
The date on which a table row becomes effective; the date that an action begins. For example, the General Ledger Account page contains Effective Date and is used in conjunction with Status to determine on which date the Account is activated or inactivated. This date also determines when you can view and change information. Pages or panels and batch processes that use the information use the current row. |
Entry Event |
Code that identifies the entry event definition that is used to create supplemental accounting entries for the transaction. You define these codes on the Entry Event Code Definition page. |
Entry Reason |
The reason that is associated with an item that defines which accounting entries to generate and can be used for reporting purposes. |
Entry Type |
ID that identifies the type of activity, such as invoice or pay an item. |
Exchange Rate |
Rate that is used for currency conversion. |
Fund |
ChartField that represents structural units for education and government accounting. Can also represent a divisional breakdown in your organization. |
Fund Affiliate |
ChartField that is used to correlate transactions between funds when using a single intraunit account. |
Journal |
Created when you edit journal lines (accounting entries) online in general ledger or you run the Journal Generator process for subsystem, imported, or batch accounting entries. |
Journal Entry |
Enter a journal line consisting of accounting and ChartField information in General Ledger Create Journal Entries. |
Journal Header |
The first page entered to create journal entries in general ledger which includes the overall journal information such as the ledger, the journal source, long and short descriptions, and more. |
Journal Line |
Refers to each accounting line entered in General Ledger Create Journal Entries consisting of appropriate ChartField and accounting values. |
Language or Language Code |
The language in which you want the field labels and report headings of your reports to print. The field values appear as you enter them. Language also refers to the language spoken by an employee, applicant, or non-employee. |
Ledger Template |
The ledger template name is used to prompt correct ChartField names. If you specify a summary ledger template as the ledger template in setting up consolidations, the system displays the Ledger field, where you enter the summary ledger name. |
Oper Unit (operating unit) |
ChartField that is used to identify a location, such as a distribution warehouse or sales center. |
Operating Unit Affiliate |
ChartField that is used to correlate transactions between operating units when using a single intraunit account. |
Process Frequency or When |
Designates the appropriate frequency in the Process Frequency group box: Once: Executes the request the next time that the batch process runs. After the batch process runs, the process frequency is automatically set to Don't Run. Always: Executes the request every time that the batch process runs. Don't Run: Ignores the request when the batch process runs. |
Process Monitor |
This link takes you to the Process List page, where you can view the status of submitted process requests. |
Product |
ChartField that captures additional information that is useful for profitability and cash flow analysis by product sold or manufactured. |
Program |
ChartField that identifies groups of related activities, cost centers, revenue centers, responsibility centers, and academic programs. Tracks revenue and expenditures for programs. |
Project |
ChartField that captures information for project or grants accounting. |
Project |
ChartField that is assigned to a project that is related to the item. |
Report ID |
Identifies the report being processed and generated. |
Report Manager |
Click this button to access the Report List page, where you can view report content, check the status of a report, and see content detail messages that describe the report and the distribution list. |
Process Monitor |
Click this button to access the Process List page, where you can view the status of submitted process requests. |
Report ID |
The report identifier. |
Report Manager |
Click this link to access the Report List page, where you can view report content, check the status of a report, and see content detail messages (which show you a description of the report and the distribution list). |
Run |
Click this button to access the Process Scheduler Request page, where you can specify the location where a process or job runs and the process output format. |
Run Control ID |
A request identification that represents a set of selection criteria for a report or process. |
Request ID |
A request identification that represents a set of selection criteria for a report or process. |
SetID |
An identification code that represents a set of control table information or TableSets. A TableSet is a group of tables (records) necessary to define your company's structure and processing options. |
Short Description |
User defined text up to 15 characters. |
Source Type |
ChartField value that represents the source type for a project transaction in Project Costing. A source type identifies the purpose of the transaction, for example labor. This field is available only if you have Project Costing. |
Statistics Code |
ChartField that identifies nonmonetary statistical amounts. |
Status |
Indicates if a row in a table is active or inactive. You cannot display inactive rows or pages or use them for running batch processes. Use to inactive rather than delete data that you no longer use to maintain an audit trail. |
Subcategory |
ChartField value that represents the subcategory for a project transaction in Project Costing. A subcategory further defines a category. For example, if you have a category of carpenter labor, subcategories might be standard hours and overtime hours. This field is available only if you have Project Costing. |
User ID |
The system identifier for the individual who generates a transaction. |
View Detail |
Link that accesses another page for more detailed information. |