Convert Accounting Entries to PeopleSoft Journals

This diagram summarizes how Oracle's PeopleSoft applications and non-PeopleSoft applications are used in creating journal entries using the Journal Generator and how journals are prepared for General Ledger processing:

How PeopleSoft applications create journal entries

Accounting entries are created in other application systems, both PeopleSoft and non-PeopleSoft.

PeopleSoft entry event and interunit and intraunit processes also create accounting entries that can be processed by Journal Generator.

If you have installed Commitment Control, budget checking can be done with journal edit and validation.

The Journal Generator process transforms accounting entries into general ledger journals. Subsystem applications can create journals from the application business unit to different general ledger business units, as well as to different ledger groups and ledgers for a General Ledger business unit.

General Ledger validates journals according to the criteria that you set up in your general ledger system. It automatically validates a journal when you request a journal edit. The Journal Entry Errors page displays any errors that the system encountered; you can then access the appropriate Journal Entry page to correct the errors. After the system validates the journals with no error, you can request posting to your general ledger. You can initiate the Journal Edit and Budget Check (GL_JEDIT2) and Journal Post (GL_JP) processes from Journal Generator, or initiate them later in a separate process.