Most of the clients that we have come through have the same question asked on why they can’t just maintain 1 posting number series for transaction posting in especially in Journals related page such as General Journals, Payment Journals and Cash Receipt Journals. The main reason for such design in BC is to prevent gaps in the document number sequence especially in financial transaction. This feature come in handy if auditors to check if there are any gaps in the document number assigned to. I will use the following scenario to explain how it works. A journal batch was created with the following number series assigned in No. Series and Posting No. Series. When the entries are being prepared but not posted, system will assign the document number from “No. Series” – WJV22-00001. The following entries are prepared, and BC auto assigns the next document number based on the No. Series setting in General Journal Batch. After reviewing the entries, the entries with Document Number “WJV22-00003...
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