Step 5 - Adjusting journal entries

Step FIve

Adjusting journal entries


There are always going to be journal entries that are outside ‘business as usual.’ For example, say there’s an incorrect posting to a bank account in the general ledger and you identify it as requiring adjustment. If executing that adjustment involves you leaving your platform or solution, that’s going to increase the time and strain it takes to handle each one. 

To alleviate such lengthy platform workarounds, BlackLine Journal Entry allows you to:

  • Identify individual transactions (or a group of them) when going through the unmatched transactions using Transaction Matching.

  • Attach that to a journal entry or create a journal from it.

  • Post it in the general  ledger account. 

This means you identified the adjustment in BlackLine, analyzed it, and cleared it directly from the unmatched transaction list without ever leaving the platform. It’s the kind of end-to-end transparency your teams need to make auditing more robust and your bank reconciliation workflows as waste-free as possible. 

Adjusting journal entries


“We’re completing our reconciliations two days faster than before. The gap between when the reconciliations are finished and the close has narrowed. That has been huge for us.”

MICHAEL KING, CONTROLLER—BERKSHIRE BANK