40.5 Check Detail Fields

The following sections describe each of the fields on the detail portion of the screen.

Ledger

The distribution of a manual check may be applied to any ledger or journal in the accounting system. This field specifies which ledger is used. If the manual check is being used to manually pay payroll, the value used for this field should be pr.

Account/Voucher

This field specifies which entry in the ledger is used. The account must be compatible with the ledger or journal. The most common use of manual checks is to pay payroll vouchers. In this case, this field would be the voucher ID of the voucher to be paid. An error message is displayed if the payroll voucher entered here does not belong to the employee entered in the header portion of the screen.

Amount

This field records the dollar amount distributed to the ledger, account.