You have set up a cash journal in Customizing under Bank Accounting ® Business Transactions ® Cash Journal.

If you use extended withholding tax in your company code, you have to make the appropriate settings for posting payments in Customizing for Financial Accounting Global Settings under Withholding Tax ® Extended Withholding Tax.

1. To get to the cash journal document entry screen, proceed as follows from the SAP R/3 screen: Accounting ® Financial accounting ® General ledger ® Document entry ® Cash journal posting or Banks ® Input or Outgoing ® Cash journal.
2. Enter a company code and a cash journal number.



You can run several cash journals in one company code, but you cannot assign one cash journal to several company codes.

3. Choose Continue.

The system notes your entries and user settings.

4. Depending on what entries you want to make, select either the Receipts or Payments tab.
5. Enter a business transaction, an amount, and depending on the business transaction, either a customer or a vendor. These are required entry fields. The other fields are optional entry fields.
6. Choose Enter to make the cash journal entry (document status light is red). Choose Save to save the cash journal entry (document status light is yellow). Choose Post to post the cash journal entry (document status light is green).