Journal Entries

Normally postings are made to the budget codes, assets, contracts and locations by the various day to day activities of MWAs, invoicing and so on. Occasionally it may be necessary to make a manual adjustment to some budget code, asset, contract or location., or you may wish to post expenditure without having to raise an MWA. These manual adjustments can be made by raising Journal Entries.

There are two types of Journal Entries: a financial journal entry, in which the source and target are budget codes or assets; or a costing journal entry, in which the source and target are contracts or locations.

Once you have added a journal entry, it cannot be modified or deleted. If you have made an error, you will need to raise another journal entry to correct the error.

One-Sided Journal Entries

If you need to raise a one sided journal entry, you can do so by selecting "Suspense" in either the From or To field for the journal entry. This will mean that the journal entry will only really post to one side, either the source or target. The "suspense" account is a non-existent source or target specifically for the purposes of raising one-sided journal entries.