Every financial transaction (and almost every other thing that modifies data in Control) results in the creation of an Activity. From an accounting point of view, an activity corresponds to a discrete financial transaction, or General Ledger Journal Batch Entry. For this reason, activites are also referred to as Journal Entries.

A typical Activity to post a payment on an order might contain the following information (and some more):

• Journal ID #9999
• Description: Payment on Order 1234
• Entry Date: 4/1/2008 3:15 pm
• Amount: $2340.00
• GL Entries:

Important information to note about every Activity:

• It must balance (Debits + Credits $0.00)
• It (normally) only has one date and time.
• It can link to Transactions and Companies.
• It supports Divisions (if enabled).
• Most activities can be edited, but none may be deleted.

More Information

• Creating a Journal Entry
• Viewing Activities on Transactions
• Viewing Activities on Companies
• customer_credits
• vendor_credits
• multi-division_accounting
• direct_costs_from_bills_assigned_to_orders