Posting to The Ledger

The process of Posting to The Ledger generates a set of Ledger Transactions from selected Source Transactions.

The Ledger Transactions that are generated by posting vary slightly depending if the Entity receiving the posting has Ledger Splitting activated or not.

If splitting is off, the following ledger transactions are generated:

• One ledger transaction for each source line value (Ex GST amount).
• One ledger transaction being the sum of the GST amounts on the lines to the GST account.
• One ledger transaction being -1 times the sum of the GST and the line values to the control account.

If splitting is on, we get pairs of transactions to the control account and to the account on the source line:

• One +ve and one -ve ledger transaction for each source line value (Ex GST amount).
• One +ve and one -ve ledger transaction for each source line GST amount.

The sign of the values in the posted ledger transactions is flipped based on settings in the Ledger Account.

Posting will fail if there are any incorrect settings in the source transaction being posted including:

• Mismatch of Entity in the Tran_Type compared to the Entity set on any of the source lines.
• If the Journal_No is already set on the source header and the Tran_Type is not a journal.
• Journal lines do not sum to zero.
• No Ledger Transactions can be posted to span multiple entities because this would lead to the total transactions for each of these entities summing to a non-zero amount, thereby putting both entities out of balance.
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