You can reopen one or more journal entries from a previous year, and post them to another set of accounts for the following year.
The administrator has customized the reopen translation table. The translation table defines the source and destination accounts for the reopening of journals. You define translations on accounts and define criteria on other dimensions. See Journal Reopen Translations.
The system is set to allow for reopening of journals using the JRN_REOPEN application parameter. See Application Parameters.
The selected source journal entries are posted to the database.
The Reopen Journal in next period option is selected in the journal entry.
You can reopen one or more journal entries to new journal entries.
To reopen a journal entry, select Reopen to new single journal. In the Reopen from section, specify a Category and Time member from which you want to select the journal entries you want to reopen. In the Reopen to section, specify a Category and Time member in which you want to reopen the journal entries.