Understanding Job Setup

After you set up the blocks and registers in the Block Setup program (P76B0730), you use the SPED Job Administrator program (P76B940) to set up and run jobs to process the data for SPED accounting. You set up a separate job for each book number. Books numbers are associated with book types. You set up the associations between book numbers and book types in the Book Type Definition program (P76B935). Each job generally includes all of the blocks required for SPED accounting for a specified book number, but you can set up a job to generate the records for only selected blocks.

When you click OK to add a job, the system:

1. Writes data to the SPED Jobs (F76B940) and SPED Job Header Blocks (F76B941) tables using the values that you entered in the SPED Job Administrator program and values that you set up in the Block Setup program (P76B0730).

2. Writes one record for each period processed to the SPED Job Batches table (F76B944).

   If you use the Annual Execution option, the system processes the information as one single batch.

   The system does not assign a batch number until you run the job.

3. Writes records to the SPED Job Signatories table (F76B945) for the signatories that you set up for the legal company in the Legal Company Constants program (P76B010).

   You can modify the signatories information before you run the job.

4. After you set up the job, you can access the SPED Job Related Book form to enter or confirm information about related books.