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Overview

Journal approvers play an important role in maintaining effective internal controls, thereby ensuring the integrity of the University’s financial database. This article provides the checklist that approvers can use when reviewing journals in the Aggie Enterprise application.

Intended Audience

Designated journal approvers

Oracle Roles Required

Not applicable


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Journal Approval Checklist

Use the following checklist when reviewing journals that are manually created or imported from spreadsheets. The checklist can help you determine whether to approve or reject journals.

Review Category

Checklist

Expense transfers

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Journals for expense transfers follow proper guidance:

—  Expense transfer guidelines

—  Cost Transfers in Aggie Enterprise

—  Which Cross Transfer Process to Use

—  Cost Transfers for Expenses in Aggie Enterprise (Dated 1/1/2024 or later)

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Both debit and credit sides of the journals use general ledger chart strings and not POETAF chart strings.

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The debit or credit financial department is a child of the Journal Category Level D financial department

Revenue transfers

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Journals for revenue transfers follow Guidelines for Revenue Transfers

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(PPM non-sponsored project revenue transfers only) PPM Revenue settings are selected if journal data in the general ledger should be synchronized with data in the PPM module.

Chart of accounts

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The Entity value is correct for the financial department and the particular transaction.

Important: Pay special attention to the Entity if you have approval authority for both the Davis Campus (3110) entity and the ANR (3310) entity.

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The Fund value for the debit and credit lines match.

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Revenue or fund transfers use revenue or fund transfer natural accounts (4xxxxx or 77500D, or 77502D and below).

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Expense transfers use expense natural accounts (5xxxxx or child of 77000D natural account).

Supporting documentation and attachments

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Supporting documentation provides evidence and detailed description or explanation of the transaction.

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Attachments do not include personal identification information (PII) or protected health information (PHI). All sensitive data such as account numbers, student information, or patient information is redacted.


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