How You Require Manual Journals Balance by Entered Currency

You can require that manual journals balance by entered currency when a journal is created.

So when a journal preparer creates a journal on the Create Journal page or Create Journal spreadsheet, total debits must equal total credits for each entered currency, otherwise the journal can't be saved.

This also means that the journal posting process doesn't have to generate additional lines to balance the journal. The posting process continues to balance any unbalanced journals coming in through external feeds.

Here's how you set it up.

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Specify Ledger Options task:

   • Offering: Financials

   • Functional Area: General Ledger

   • Task: Specify Ledger Options, with the primary ledger scope set

2. On the Specify Ledger Options page, enable the Require manually entered journals balance by currency option in the Journal Processing Balancing section. The option is automatically enabled for any associated secondary ledgers and reporting currencies.