The General Ledger module is the foundation of your accounting system, with the flexibility that meets the current and future financial management requirements of organizations of all types and sizes. It provides a robust feature set designed to handle your most demanding budgeting and processing needs. General Ledger fully integrates with all modules and is the key to maximizing the efficiency and accuracy of your financial data.
Create alphanumeric account numbers as long as 45 characters.
Flag General Ledger accounts as inactive to stop using them, but retain them in the system for historical and reporting purposes.
Maintain separate periods for adjusting and closing entries.
Assign different retained earnings accounts to different account segments.
Set up and schedule recurring journal entries for transactions that are processed on a regular basis.
Drill down to the originating journal entry and transaction from transaction history.
Lock budgets to prevent unauthorized changes.
Limit the batches shown in the Batch List window to only those from a single sub-ledger.
Automatically create budgets using prior-year information or choose from seven other computation methods.
Create analytical reports, spreadsheets, graphs, and charts, and update budgets automatically through full integration with Microsoft Excel.
Produce fast, flexible, customized financial statements through full integration with Microsoft Excel.
Print consolidated statements or statements for any accounting division represented by an account number segment code.
Auto-reverse entries to eliminate manual accrual tracking and specify the period for the reversal.
Reverse a posted transaction.
Drill down from an unposted journal entry to the originating transaction.
Included with the General Ledger module, Account Code Change provides a simple way to quickly and easily change, combine, or copy your important business data. Efficiently replace outdated information with a few keystrokes to remain current with elements critical to your business. Account Code Change also includes the ability to modify segment delimiters and the account segment length.
Use Change by Example to make multiple changes from one example entry
Import multiple changes, copy and combine from one external file
Access multiple changes features with the easy-to-use toolbar buttons
Ease system management by deleting, maintaining, and renumbering your GL account numbers
Works with General Ledger, GL Security, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory Control, Order Entry, Purchase Orders, Project and Job Costing, Common Services, U.S./Canadian Payroll
Included in the General Ledger module, the G/L Security module enables organizations to control which users can view or use certain general ledger accounts based on segment validation in G/L Security settings.
Included in the General Ledger module, the G/L Security module enables organizations to control which users can view or use certain general ledger accounts based on segment validation in G/L Security settings.
Batch Listing
Batch Status
Chart of Accounts
Comparative Balance Sheets
General Ledger Options
General Ledger Transactions Listing
Income Statements
Balance Sheets
Posting Journals
Trial Balance
G/L Consolidations lets you transfer and merge General Ledger account and transaction information between separate company and branch office locations. It is also designed to enable subsidiaries and holding companies to run without being on the same network or accounting database. G/L Consolidations provides a feature set that allows your company to define the level of detail to consolidate and provides a comprehensive audit trail. The system is available in two versions: a full version for the head office and a remote-sites version for branch offices.
Consolidate multiple general ledgers by transactions, net period changes, or account balances.
Consolidate general ledgers with differing fiscal years and fiscal periods, and with different account structures by using a mapping table.
Include budgets for a range of years in the consolidated company.
Maintain a separate general ledger for your consolidated ledgers or consolidate with the head office or central general ledger.
Consolidate all accounts or a partial set of accounts using the automatic balancing account (exclude entries from the consolidation if needed).
Merge multiple accounts in subsidiaries into single holding company accounts.
Merge multiple accounts in subsidiaries into single holding company accounts.
Specify a description for account balances or net change transactions.
Maintain a detailed audit trail of all consolidation activities.
Transfer transactions originating in a holding company back to subsidiaries to centrally maintain payroll or fixed assets.
Automatically perform currency translation with the provision of gain or loss on translation. *
Consolidate multicurrency and single currency accounts, and general ledgers with differing functional currencies. *
Translate amounts from functional currency or source currency in the originating ledger, and specify the translation rate type. *
* Available with the add-on Multi-Currency module increasing end-user productivity and reducing IT costs.
Some of the reports included are: