Dates That You Associate With Journal Entries

This chart shows the timing relationships that are important to payroll journal entries:

These definitions are important in understanding payroll and time and labor journal entries:

General ledger date

Enter the date that the system uses for posting to the proper general ledger. The table that defines date ranges for each accounting period is in the Date Fiscal Patterns table (F0008) for the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne General Accounting system.

For payroll, the system always uses the general ledger date.

For stand-alone time and labor, the system uses either the general ledger date or the system date, as set up in the processing options for Generate Timecard Entries (R052901).

Pay period ending date

Enter the last day of the pay period, as defined in the master pay cycles.

Payment date

Enter the payment date of the pay period, as defined in the master pay cycles.

Work date

Enter the actual date entered on a timecard.

Transition period

Indicates any pay period that has working days in two accounting periods.

Accounting period ending date

Enter the last day of the general accounting period.

Cost period

Enter the pay period that can be used with the creation of payroll journal entries for a transition period. Journal entries for those timecards with work dates that fall into the preceding accounting period are assigned a general ledger date equal to the last day of the preceding accounting period. Journal entries for those timecards with work dates in the succeeding period are assigned a general ledger date equal to the pay period ending date in pre-payroll processing.

Override date

Indicates the date that is used as the general ledger date for all payroll journals when defined in the journal entries step of the payroll cycle.