Making Journal Entries

Use journal entries to adjust the balances in your general ledger accounts without entering a posting transaction. For more information, see Journal Entries, Journal Entries Overview, and Journal Entry Preferences.

Journal entry transactions aren't posted until they're approved. You can select a posting period when you create or edit a journal entry that is pending approval. You can't select a closed period. If NetSuite can't use the selected posting period, it recalculates the posting period based on your accounting preferences.

To manually create journal entries, see Entering General Journal Transactions.

Copy an existing journal entry to automatically complete header and line-level data on a new journal entry. To copy a journal entry, go to Transactions > Financial > Make Journal Entries > List. Click the View link next to the journal entry that you want to copy. On the journal record, click Make Copy.

You can create memorized transactions for journal entries that recur or to create and use memorized journal entry templates. For more information, see Memorized Transactions.

You can also import journal entry data from a CSV file. See Importing a Journal Entry.

Note:

The limit for journal entries submitted through the user interface or synchronous SOAP web services is 1,000 lines. For transactions submitted through SuiteScript, CSV import, or through asynchronous SOAP web services, the limit is 10,000 lines per transaction. NetSuite may take more time to approve, edit, or save journal entries with high numbers of lines.

For information about making journal entries for statistical accounts, see Making Statistical Journal Entries.

Users with the Custom Transaction Forms permission can click Customize on the Journal page to create a custom journal entry form with fields different from the standard journal entry form. See Creating Custom Entry and Transaction Forms.

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