Setting Up Ledger Types for General Accounting

You define the ledgers that you maintain in the general ledger in UDC table 09/LT. Ledgers contain management and control information for:

• Statistics or units

• Budgets

• Forecasts

• Accrual basis amounts

• Cash basis amounts

Examples of ledger types in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne General Accounting system include:

• AA (actual amounts)

• AU (actual units)

• BA (budget amounts)

• BU (budget units)

The system associates a units ledger with each primary amount ledger. For example, the AU ledger is the units ledger that is associated with the AA ledger and the BU ledger is the units ledger that is associated with the BA ledger.

When you enter a journal entry that has units, the system does not create an additional record in the F0911 table, it merely stores the units in a separate field. However, when you post a journal entry that has units, the system creates a separate F0902 record that it uses to record the units in the units ledger that is associated with the amount ledger. For example, the system posts the amounts to the AA ledger and posts units to the AU ledger.

You can create additional ledger types. Ledger types U1–U9 and UA–UZ are provided for your business needs. These ledger types are for your use only and cannot be overwritten or used for other purposes in future releases of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software.

The information for ledger types is stored in the Ledger Type Master File (F0025).