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This report displays in detail journal entries created manually or automatically by documents produced in SAP Business One. The large variety of selection criteria can create the most accurate report as per company requirements.

Use this window to specify selection criteria for the Document Journal report.

To open the window, choose   Financials   Financial Reports   Accounting   Document Journal Report  . Alternatively, open it from the Reports module.

After defining the report, you can view it in the output modes Detailed Transactions or Month Totals.

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This topic documents fields and other elements in this window that either are not self-explanatory or require additional information.

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Selection Criteria
Selection Criteria Name

You can save a specific set of selection criteria and generate the report accordingly whenever required. To do so pressCTRL+A , enter a meaningful name, and set all the required selection criteria for the report. Choose Save. To generate a report based on a saved selection criteria set, click the () icon. The List of Reports – Selection Criteria window appears. Highlight the required selection criteria set from the list, and choose the Choose button. The selected selection criteria set is populated. To generate the report, choose OK.

BP

Displays business partners in the report.

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When not selected, all other fields pertaining to business partner selection criteria are unavailable.

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Customer Group, Vendor Group

Specify whether to display business partners from specific groups, divided into customers and vendors.

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To display only customers, choose None in the Vendor Group field.

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Properties

Opens the Properties window where you can specify properties as selection criteria. Your choices appear in the adjoining field.

Accounts

Includes G/L accounts in the report.

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When not selected, all other fields related to G/L accounts selection criteria are unavailable.

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Find

Opens the Find G/L Accounts window, where you can specify G/L accounts to be included in the report.

[Level]

Select the level of the accounts to display in the table. Selecting Level 1 displays the account titles on the highest level.

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A selected row includes all accounts appearing under the title.

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X, Account

Indicates accounts selected to appear in the report:

  • Clear the X from a row to deselect the account.

  • Click the X in the column header to select/clear all accounts/selections in the table.

Posting Date From...To, Creation Date From...To, Document Date From...To

Define the transaction range by posting, creation and/or document date, and specify a date range.

Output Mode: Detailed

Specify the output mode of the report:

  • No Total: Displays all journal entries

  • Month (Posting Date): Displays all journal entries per month based on the posting date

  • Month (Posting Date) and Original Journal: Displays all journal entries per month based on the posting date and original journal

  • Period (Posting Date) and Original Journal: Displays all journal entries per period based on the posting date and original journal

Output Mode: Totals

Specify the output mode of the report:

  • Month (Posting Date): Displays the totals per month based on the posting date

  • Month (Creation Date): Displays the totals per month based on the creation date

  • Month (Posting Date) and Original Journal: Displays the totals per month based on the posting date and original journal

  • Period (Posting Date) and Original Journal: Displays the totals per period based on the posting date and original journal

Creation Date

Groups the postings by month, based on the creation date.

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Only available for Month Totals Mode.

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Display Postings Summary

Displays the postings summary in a separate row at the end of the report.

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Only relevant for Month Totals Mode.

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Opening Balance for Period

Select this checkbox to display the opening balance of the selected BP and G/L accounts, as accumulated in the time range from the following option date to the start date specified in the Selection options:

  • OB from Start of Company Activity – displays the opening balance accumulated after company activity started.

  • OB from Start of Fiscal Year – displays the opening balance accumulated after the start of the fiscal year specified in the Selection options.

Example Example

You have selected the OB from Start of Fiscal Year radio button.

The posting date range defined in the Selection option is 01/04/2005–31/03/2006, and the posting periods defined for the company are four quarters per calendar year.

The date to be considered as "Start of Fiscal Year" is then 01/01/2005 .

The opening balance display is then the accumulated balance from 01/01/2005 to 01/04/2005.

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Caution Caution

The calculation of the opening balance is influenced by the date range defined for the report. If you specify more than one date range, SAP Business One calculates opening balance as follows:

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  • If Posting Date is one of the selected options, all transactions with posting date earlier than the date defined in the Posting Date From field are included.

  • If Posting Date is not one of the selected options, all transactions with document date earlier than the date defined in the Document Date From field are included.

Ignore Adjustment

Report excludes adjustment transactions.

Display Installments in One Row

Group installments included in transactions in one row. The row representing the installments displays the cumulative amount of all the installments in the transaction, while all the other details of that row refer to the last installment.

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Only relevant for the Detailed Transactions output mode.

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Numbering for Detailed Mode, First Sequential No., No. on First Printed Page

Specify the first sequential number and the first page number to be displayed in the detailed mode of the report.

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Page numbering is only relevant for printed reports.

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Sort

Report sorts using the criteria that you specify.

In the table, specify the required sorting fields and their preferred order.