Understanding Ledger, Journal, and Financial Information Inquiries

PeopleSoft General Ledger provides a series of inquiries that enable you to review ledger summary and detail ledger information based on selected ChartField combinations. These inquiries use several successive views that take you down to journal line details. The ledger inquiry also enables you to drill down across products from account balances in General Ledger to specific transaction entries in other PeopleSoft Financials and Distribution products.

The following terms are used in this topic:

Term	Definition
Regular Balance	View a regular balance when you inquire on the balance of a ledger and you do not include any adjustment entries, balance forward entries, or closing entries. This balance only includes transactions posted during the specified period.
Cumulative Balance	View a cumulative ledger balance when you inquire on the balance of a ledger by including balance forward entries, adjustment entries and closing entries. Each balance is added to the next balance to provide a cumulative ledger balance.
Base Amount	The transaction amount converted to the base currency indicated for the transactions business unit.
Posted Total Base Amount	The total ledger amount expressed in the base currency.
Transaction Amount	The amount of the transaction entered in a currency that is different from the base currency or is the same currency as the base currency.
Posted Total Transaction Amount	Amounts in the transaction currency for all ledger balances including those in the base currency.
Posted Total Amount	Total amount of the transactions in the transaction currency for all ledger balances except those in the base currency.

Note:

Many of the following inquiry pages operate in deferred processing mode. Most fields are not updated or validated until you save the page or refresh it by clicking a button, link, or tab. This delayed processing has various implications for the field values on the page—for example, if a field contains a default value, any value you enter before the system updates the page overrides the default. Another implication is that the system updates quantity balances or totals only when you save or otherwise refresh the page.