Use this page to create new balancing rules. Before creating a new rule, you should query the rule on this page to ensure the rule does not already exist.
Ledger: Enter the ledger for which to define balancing rules. The list of values displays all the ledgers to which you have access and indicates whether the ledger is primary or secondary. The ledgers available here come from the Data Access Set assigned to your responsibility. The list of values displays only ledgers that are assigned to complete configurations in Accounting Setup Manager and that have the Enable Intracompany Balancing Journals check box checked on the Update Ledger: Ledger Options page.
Status: This field indicates whether the rule is enabled or disabled.
Additional Information Context: This field allows you to enter the context for the Intracompany Rule Descriptive flexfield. The information entered is only for your reference.
Debit Balancing Segment: This field represents the debit (party recording receivable) balancing segment value. The list of values shows all of the balancing segment values allowed by your security profile. For each ledger-legal entity-source-category combination, there must be the default rule All Other-All Other.
Credit Balancing Segment: This field represents the credit (party recording payable) balancing segment value. The list of values shows all of the balancing segment values allowed by your security profile. For each ledger-legal entity-source-category combination, there must be the default rule All Other-All Other.
Debit Account: This is the balancing account that the debit balancing segment value uses to balance when trading with the credit balancing segment value.
For balancing segment value - balancing segment value rules where values are explicitly chosen, the balancing account you choose is used exactly. However, when you select the value All Other, the Balancing API determines and substitutes the correct balancing and intercompany segment values at the time of balancing. For example, if you enter an account code combination 01.4000.02, it actually means xx.4000.yy, where xx is the balancing segment value of the debit balancing segment value on the journal and yy is the balancing segment value of the credit balancing segment value on the journal. The Balancing API substitutes these values during balancing.
Credit Account: This is the balancing account that the credit balancing segment value uses to balance when trading with the debit balancing segment value.
For balancing segment value - balancing segment value rules where values are explicitly chosen, the balancing account you choose is used exactly. However, when you select the value All Other, the Balancing API determines and substitutes the correct balancing segment value at the time of balancing. For example, if you enter and account code combination 02.2000.01, it actually means xx.2000.yy, where xx is the balancing segment value of the credit balancing segment value on the journal and yy is the balancing segment value of the debit balancing segment value on the journal. The Balancing API substitutes these values during balancing.
Level of Summarization:
Summary Net: If you select Summary Net, the Balancing API summarizes the debits and credits for each balancing segment value on the journal, determines the overall net debit or net credit for each balancing segment value, balances using the net amounts for each balancing segment value, and produces a summary balancing line for each balancing segment value. When processing in Summary Net mode, the Balancing API retains the differences in exchange rates for lines with the same balancing segment value. Negative debits are interpreted as positive credits and negative credits as positive debits, because each balancing segment value is summarized.
Summary Net is the default.
Detail: If you select Detail, each line on the journal is balanced individually and a balancing line is generated for each line on the journal. For lines with negative amounts (debits or credits), the sign of each original line is retained in the balancing line.
Clearing Balancing Segment Value Usage:
Use for All Journals: This option specifies that a clearing balancing segment value will be used for all types of journals. You can enter a clearing balancing segment value at the journal header level (in General Ledger only), or the default clearing balancing segment value will be used if no value is manually entered. This option is the default.
Use for Many-to-Many Journals Only: This option specifies that a clearing balancing segment value should be used only to clear many-to-many journals. You can enter a clearing balancing segment value at the journal header level (in General Ledger only), or the default clearing balancing segment value will be used if no value is manually entered.
Default Options:
Default options include specifying clearing options in case a clearing company should be used but none can be determined for the journal.
Default Clearing Balancing Segment Value: If no clearing company is specified for the journal, use the default clearing company. The list of values for the Default Clearing Balancing Segment Value is restricted to those that are mapped to the legal entity. If you choose the Default Clearing Balancing Segment Value, you need to enter a clearing balancing segment value.
Manually Entered Clearing Balancing Segment Value: If no clearing company is specified for the journal then an error occurs. This option should not be used with journals coming from subledgers because the clearing company cannot be specified in Subledger Accounting.
Default Rule: This option can be used with either Detail or Summary Net level balancing. The Default Rule is the rule defined for All Other-All Other. When this option is specified, balancing lines are built using the All Other-All Other rule, ignoring all the other rules defined in the Balancing Rules subtab.
Note: This option is not available if you set the Clearing Balancing Segment Value Usage to Use for All Journals. This option is available only if you set the Clearing Balancing Segment Value Usage to Use for Many-to-Many Journals.