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Absolute Values - G/L Entries

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Posted on by Rjohnson1607 10

Hi all, 

when moving values from one G/L code to another or posting accruals/Prepayments and reversing. How do people manage to view what sage or other software providers would call an "Absolute value"

Ie you match the movement against the error and all that remains is the true value in the correct G/L code. 

Example - Orginal posting - £1000 code 5555

Should have been posted to 5556

So - £1000 out of code 5555 and +£1000 into 5556.  The two entries in 5555 should net to 0 and be excluded from a G/L entry view?

Hope this makes sense. 

TIA

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    Dallefeld 233 User Group Leader on at

    Not really sure what you mean. In BC, a GL entry will not post unless the posting date and the document number are in balance. No entries are ever excluded from the general ledger entry table/screen, that would be in direct contrast to full audit tracking. You can however, not print accounts on financial reports, that have zero balances.

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    Rjohnson1607 10 on at

    This is when we are correcting an entry that's been posted incorrectly.  

    in the example above we have 3 entries posted but only require 1.  Whilst we need all 3 for audit purposes, in order to see a clean set of data, we only really need to the see the value posted into G/L 5556 as the two in 5555 net out. 

    Normal values - 5555 - Dr £1000 and Cr £1000  5556 - Dr £1000

    Absolute values would just show the Dr £1000 in 5556

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    IB-29041624-0 1,187 Moderator on at

    The feature you are looking for is not in Business Central.

    The way Business Central calculates the balance of a G/L Account is depending on all transactions, even those that are corrections, is a part of your dataset at all times.

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