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Published inJun 2011
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Ranjeet Yadav
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Ranjeet Yadav

Ranjeet Yadav has been working in the IT industry for more than 10 years. He possesses professional experience of more than 8 years as a functional consultant with PeopleSoft finance and supply chain applications. He has worked on PeopleSoft implementations for many world class organizations and performed various roles such as PeopleSoft consultant, Module lead, Finance track lead and Project manager. Although his entry into the PeopleSoft world was rather accidental, he was quickly impressed by the deep impact such an ERP product can have on an organization's functioning. He finds the challenge of designing solutions for organizations' critical business problems quite exciting. Ranjeet holds an Electronics Engineering degree and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management with specialization in Information Systems from Indian Institute of Management,Lucknow. He is currently working with IBM India as a PeopleSoft consultant and Project manager.
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Understanding journal processing


Journal is a mechanism to record accounting entries in a summarized form. There are multiple ways in which journals are created in the General Ledger. In Chapter 1, PeopleSoft Financials Fundamentals, we saw how we can configure accounting entry definitions, accounting entry templates, and journal sources. Now we'll explore other aspects such as journal creation, editing, and posting.

Journal creation

There are four ways in which journals can be created:

  1. Manually from journal entry pages

  2. Using the Journal Generator process to create journals from other PeopleSoft modules as well as non-PeopleSoft systems

  3. Spreadsheet journal upload

  4. Flat file import

Let's discuss these methods in detail.

Using the Journal Generator process

Journal Generator is used to create journals from PeopleSoft sub-modules as well as accounting entries generated and sent by external non-PeopleSoft systems. As we have previously discussed, each sub-module such as Billing, Accounts Receivable...

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Ranjeet Yadav

Ranjeet Yadav has been working in the IT industry for more than 10 years. He possesses professional experience of more than 8 years as a functional consultant with PeopleSoft finance and supply chain applications. He has worked on PeopleSoft implementations for many world class organizations and performed various roles such as PeopleSoft consultant, Module lead, Finance track lead and Project manager. Although his entry into the PeopleSoft world was rather accidental, he was quickly impressed by the deep impact such an ERP product can have on an organization's functioning. He finds the challenge of designing solutions for organizations' critical business problems quite exciting. Ranjeet holds an Electronics Engineering degree and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management with specialization in Information Systems from Indian Institute of Management,Lucknow. He is currently working with IBM India as a PeopleSoft consultant and Project manager.
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