Considerations for Supporting Reference Assignments

You may want to analyze account balances and financial results by different transaction attributes. However, transaction information such as salesperson, customer, or supplier are typically not stored in the general ledger because of the volume of general ledger balances it would create.

Therefore, you're not able to analyze general ledger data categorized by transaction attributes.

You can perform this type of reporting and analysis using supporting reference information from subledger transactions. This feature enables you to create balances based upon transaction attributes not typically stored as segments in the general ledger chart of accounts.

For example, you can report on receivables balances by salesperson, customer, credit risk category, item, or any other combination of transaction attributes.

Supporting references can be used to:

• Provide additional information about a subledger journal entry line.

• Establish a subledger balance for a particular supporting reference value.

• Assist with reconciliation of account balances.

• Provide additional detail information for financial managerial analysis.

You can assign supporting references at the subledger journal entry line level.

Tips for Assigning Supporting References

• You can add or delete supporting reference assignments for user-defined journal entry rule set only.

• The Manage Supporting References page can only display up to 1000 assignments. Provide additional search criteria to narrow down your search results, especially when you need to add or delete assignments.

Assigning Supporting References at the Subledger Journal Entry Line

Assigning supporting references to subledger journal entry lines enables you to maintain detailed balances, by supporting reference value, for general ledger accounts.