General Ledger Report

Review journal information to trace each transaction back to its original source.

General Ledger prints a separate page for each balancing segment value. For each journal line, the report prints the account affected, the concatenated description, the journal line amount, and the beginning and ending account balance. Additionally, for each journal line, the report prints journal details including source, category, journal name, and effective date. The report lists accounts in ascending order by account segment value, and it prints a "CR" next to credit amounts.

Note: If you use the Enter Budget Amounts form to update budget balances, General Ledger does not generate journal entries to reflect your changes. This will cause the General Ledger Report to flag discrepancies between a budget balance and the budget journals for that period.

Parameters

When you request this report, General Ledger prompts you to enter the following:

Ledger/Ledger Set: Choose a ledger or a ledger set to run this report for multiple ledgers at once.

Note: You can only choose ledgers or ledger sets that are assigned to your Data Access Set. You must have at least read access to one ledger and balancing segment value or management segment value to choose the ledger.

If you use reporting currencies (journal or subledger level), you can choose a reporting currency.

Ledger Currency: If you chose a ledger set in the Ledger/Ledger Set field, choose a ledger currency of one of the ledgers in the ledger set. The ledger currency filters the data in the report to only report on those ledgers for which the currency matches the ledger currency specified.

If you use reporting currencies (journal or subledger level), and your ledger set includes reporting currencies, you can choose the currency of a reporting currency for this field.

If you chose a ledger or reporting currency, the currency of the ledger or reporting currency will automatically default and cannot be changed.

Currency Type: Choose Total or Statistical.

Type: Choose Document Number, Entry Item, Line Item, or Source Item as follows:

Balance Type: Choose Actual, Budget or Encumbrance balances.

Budget or Encumbrance Name: If you chose the Budget balance type, you must select a budget name. If you chose the Encumbrance balance type, you must select an encumbrance type. Finally, if you chose the Actual balance type, General Ledger automatically enters N/A.

Starting/Ending Period: Choose the range of accounting periods for your report.

Account From/To: Choose the range of accounts for your report.

Selected Headings

Refer to the selected heading descriptions below for additional information.

Description/Sequence Name: If you selected the Line Item, Entry Item, or Source Item Type, General Ledger prints the journal description for each journal line. If you selected the Document Number Type, General Ledger prints the name of the sequence used to number the journal containing your line.

Line Item/Entry Item/Source Item/Document Number: If you selected the Line Item Type, General Ledger prints REFERENCE_1 from the GL_JE_LINES table. If you selected the Source Item Type, General Ledger prints REFERENCE_4 from the GL_JE_LINES table. If you selected the Entry Item type, General Ledger prints EXTERNAL_REFERENCE from the GL_JE_HEADERS table. Finally, if you selected the Document Number Type, General Ledger prints the sequence number of the journal containing your journal line.