General Ledger Inquiries Workflow Concepts

The GL Inquiry programs displays information stored for each General Ledger account number, journal entries for the current and next general ledger period, and all past journal entries stored in the yearly journal file.

Workflow Concepts

The Account Inquiry displays information on account numbers and lists summary activity, journal entries in the current or next GL period, account balances, budget balances and yearly journal entries. When you first access Account Inquiry, the upper portion of the screen contains a Go to field, which is used locate specific account numbers. The Go to field is case sensitive. This means that if you enter alpha or alpha-numeric codes to lookup a record number, the system differentiates between V100 and v100 when searching for records. The Account view displays by default. From the Windows menu, you can select other windows of information to open. From the Account Inquiry program you can access five views of information in the lower portion of the screen. You can display the following views: Account Balances Budget Balances Journal Entries Summary Activity Yearly Journal History

You can display each current, next period journal entry and any prior period entry provided that it not yet been updated by the Prior Period Update using Journal Inquiry. All journal entry information originally field is displayed, along with running credit and debit entry totals. To display journal entries by entry number, select the open document icon. To display the previous or next record in the journal file, select the scrolling record icons.