Odoo Accounting Journal Entries: An accounting journal is a record of transaction exchanges requested by date, these transactions are recorded in the name of journal entries.

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How to Configure Journals
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2. INTRODUCTION
❖ Odoo Accounting Journal Entries: An accounting journal is a record of transaction
exchanges requested by date, these transactions are recorded in the name of journal
entries.
❖ Each journal entry shows account names and their credits and debit values.

3. ❖ In Odoo we can create different types of journals.
❖ Sales, Purchase, cash, Bank, and Miscellaneous.
❖ Each journal types have different rules:-
● Sales journal used to post sent customer invoices
● Purchase journal used to post received vendor bills
● Cash type journal used to track daily cash transactions as well as the received
customer payments
● Bank for posting your bank statements, track customer or vendor payments and
all other transactions recorded by your associated bank account
● The last one is Miscellaneous journal type, it is used for anything that doesn’t fit
into the above types.

4. ❖ To configure the journals go to Invoice > Configuration > Journals.

5. ❖ Here you will be able to see the list of the default journals created be odoo. All the journals
present here comes under the basic 5 types Sales, Purchase, cash, Bank, and
miscellaneous.

6. ❖ At first let’s discuss about the journal type Sales. Under Journal Entries you have an
option to add the Default Income Account, Dedicated Credit Note Sequence, etc.

7. ❖ Under Advanced Settings you have an option to add the Control-Access, Payment
Informations, etc.

8. ❖ Next journal type Purchase. Under Journal Entries you have an option to add the Default
Income Account, Dedicated Credit Note Sequence, etc.

9. ❖ Under Advanced Settings you have an option to add the Allowed account types, Allowed
accounts, etc.

10. ❖ Next journal type Cash. Under Journal Entries you have an option to add the Default Income
Account, Dedicated Credit Note Sequence, etc.

11. ❖ Under Payment Configuration you have an option to add the Incoming Payment Method and
Outgoing Incoming Payment Method.

12. ❖ Under Advanced Settings you have an option to add the Allowed account types,
Allowed accounts, etc.

13. ❖ Next journal type Bank. Under Journal Entries you have an option to add the Bank
Account, Suspense Account, etc.

14. ❖ Under Payment Configuration you have an option to add the Outstanding Payment
Accounts, Payment Methods, etc.

15. ❖ Under Advanced Settings you have an option to add the Allowed account
types, Allowed accounts, etc.

16. ❖ Last journal type Miscellaneous. Under Journal Entries you need to enter the journal
Short Code.

17. ❖ Under Advanced Settings you have an option to add the Allowed account types, Allowed
accounts, etc. To get more detailed information you can video tutorial by Cybrosys.

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