Check Management in the Cash Journal 

Use

In the cash journal single screen transaction, you can include checks and manage when they are deposited at the bank.

Prerequisites

In Customizing for Bank Accounting, under Business Transactions ® Cash Journal, you have made the settings required for setting up a cash journal.

In Customizing (FBCJC2), you have defined additional business transactions for depositing checks at the bank (business transaction type B).

If you have the appropriate authorization (authorization object F_FBCJ), you can also define business transactions while you are carrying out the check deposit function.

You are on the Cash Journal screen.

Features

The cash journal is a single-screen transaction. This means that you can enter, display, post, and deposit checks on one screen.

You have the following options:

Once you have entered the required data (business transaction, amount, check number, check issuer, bank key), choose Enter to enter another check.

Checks must be saved before they can be deposited. You have the following options for saving a check that you have entered:

You have the following options for posting a check:

In order to post checks, you need to have the appropriate authorization. You can assign authorizations via the authorization object F_FBCJ.

To deposit saved or posted checks at the bank, select the items. The checks selected are then summarized in a check lot. For more information, see Cash Journal: Depositing Checks

To display the entire content of a check lot, select a check item in the required check lot. When you select Check lot, the Print dialog box appears. The print preview contains the complete details of all the checks that belong to the check lot you selected. You can print the list from the print preview.

As well as defining cash journal business transactions in Customizing, you can also, if necessary, define a new business transaction while you are making entries in the cash journal. However, you must have the appropriate authorization (see above).

You can print all of the checks to be deposited in the time period displayed as a list. When you select Check lot, the Print dialog box appears. The print preview contains the complete details of all the checks that belong to the check lot you selected. You can print the list from the print preview.

Activities

Cash Journal: Depositing Checks