General Ledger Overview

The General Ledger System (GL) is designed to be flexible and to provide support for a wide variety of applications.

To accomplish this, the approach was taken to treat the G/L as a repository of data, and to organize the data in such a manner that it can be retrieved easily and efficiently.

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GL File Structure

Field Sizes

Account Numbering

Account Description

Account Type

Sort Sequence

Account Status

Accounting Periods

Transaction Posting

Autopost Numbers

Alternate Chart of Accounts

Sequential Journal Entry Assignment by Account