Journals Report
Provides journal activity for a period or range of periods by balancing segment, currency, and account range, printing accounting date, category, journal name, entered debits and credits, and account totals.
Run note · BIP run High-volume GL extracts can exceed BI Publisher's online output limit and time out. Run it as a scheduled process (ESS) with output bursted to file or email rather than online preview, and bound it by ledger and period.
Sample build of the Journals Report — reconciled, and rendered tool-neutral so it runs in Power BI, ThoughtSpot, or Tableau.
| Journal | Category | Source | Entered Debit | Entered Credit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample | Computer-Hardware | Sample | $1,240,500.00 | $1,240,500.00 | Open |
| — | Buildings | — | $842,150.75 | $842,150.75 | Posted |
| Sample | Vehicles | Sample | $96,400.00 | $96,400.00 | Validated |
| — | Furniture-Fixtures | — | $1,005,233.10 | $1,005,233.10 | Open |
| Sample | Machinery | Sample | $58,720.40 | $58,720.40 | Paid |
| Sample | Computer-Hardware | Sample | $1,240,500.00 | $1,240,500.00 | Open |
The report lists journal activity by balancing segment, currency, and account range.
190 journals are entered but unposted at the period cut, so their amounts aren't in the balances yet.
Post or document the unposted journals before close; an unposted journal is a number missing from the trial balance.
This is the report's BI Publisher data model — the SQL data set BI Publisher runs against Oracle tables to produce the output. The same SQL becomes a dbt model in your warehouse, so one definition drives both the formatted report and the analytics layer.
Data sources
The data-warehouse model — one fact surrounded by conformed dimensions (what you slice by) and measures (what you aggregate), expressed as dbt so it migrates with you. Grain: one row per source transaction.
| Element | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| GL_JE_HEADERS | dimension | dimension |
| GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS | dimension | dimension |
| Entered Debit | measure | measure |
| Entered Credit | measure | measure |
Every source object behind this report. Each linked table has its own page with full column descriptions, drawn from the Oracle BICC lineage and articulated for practitioners.
| Table | Reporting columns | Subject areas |
|---|---|---|
| GL_JE_LINES | 26 | 2 |
| GL_JE_HEADERS | 34 | 2 |
| GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS | 7 | 61 |
Customization note The seeded layout is dense and print-oriented; teams typically rebuild it as a filterable journal explorer with source/category facets and Excel export. Irvine rebuilds these on your data.