General ledger (GL) journal delete/accounting line reversal web service

摘要

A web service for automatically determining accounting entries that are affected by the deletion of a journal, formulating reverse accounting entries, and sending the reverse entries back to the source system is described. The service can use transaction identification keys to map and track which accounting entries are affected by the deletion of the journal. The web service can use extensible markup language (XML) among other formats.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of formulating reverse accounting entries for a deleted journal, the method comprising:
receiving a command, in at least one computer processor operatively coupled to a memory, that a journal is to be deleted; mapping, by the at least one computer processor operatively coupled with the memory, a journal entry in the journal to be deleted to a transaction entry received from a feeder system; determining, by the at least one computer processor operatively coupled with the memory, an identifier key corresponding to the transaction entry received from the feeder system; formulating, by the at least one computer processor operatively coupled with the memory, a reverse accounting entry in a web service message to reverse the transaction entry; and sending, by the at least one computer processor operatively coupled with the memory, the reverse accounting entry with the identifier key corresponding to the transaction entry received from the feeder system in the web service message to the feeder system, wherein the web service message aggregates other reverse accounting entries for other journal entries in the journal to be deleted.