{"id":48127,"date":"2025-12-15T17:33:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trintech.com\/?p=48127"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:46:22","slug":"the-missing-link-in-your-close-centralize-journal-entries-with-adra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trintech.com\/blog\/the-missing-link-in-your-close-centralize-journal-entries-with-adra\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Link in Your Close: Centralize Journal Entries with Adra"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Missing Link in Your Close: Centralize Journal Entries with Adra<\/h1>\n

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If you\u2019re already using Adra Balancer<\/a> and Adra Matcher<\/a>, your close is probably in a much better place than it used to be. Reconciliations are faster, exceptions are clearer, and your team spends less time on the close, and more time actually resolving issues. But there\u2019s usually one piece that still feels manual: journal entries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reconciliations and matches may happen in Adra. But adjustments tend to live in spreadsheets with supporting details in emails. The journal entry itself is keyed into the ERP, and then manually tied back to the original issue. You can show an auditor and it\u2019s all there, but it\u2019s slow, risky, and disconnected from the rest of your close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adra Journal Entry<\/a> exists to close that gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Journal Entries Need Their Own Home<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Journal entries aren\u2019t just an administrative step at the end of the close. They\u2019re where corrections, estimates, allocations, and complex activity are actually recorded in the ledger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When those entries are scattered across spreadsheets, shared drives, and emails, you create more work in the long run. It\u2019s harder to prove exactly how a JE ties back to a reconciliation or matching exception. You run the risk of people re-keying the same information multiple times. And it causes limited visibility for Controllers who don\u2019t have a clear, concise view of what\u2019s been created, approved, or posted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For organizations that are already automating reconciliations and matching, this process becomes the last manual hiccup in an otherwise connected close. Centralizing journal entries in Adra turns them into a managed, visible part of your close, rather than a separate spreadsheet or manual job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Manage Journal Entries in Adra<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Adra Journal Entry gives you a single place to create, track, and route journal entries as part of your existing Adra close, then pushes them to your ERP for approval and posting. Because the mechanics of Adra Journal Entry are intentionally simple, most teams can adopt it without a heavy change management effort. A typical workflow might look like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. A reconciling item in Balancer or an exception in Matcher is identified as needing a journal entry.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The preparer creates a JE directly from that context in Adra, with the option of choosing to use a template for consistency. They can also attach any documentation or make notes as needed directly in the JE. This ensures all supporting information remains with the corresponding entry, for a faster, easier audit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Once the journal is ready to post, you can export all or some journals to a single flat file or automatically upload them to your ERP where you can follow your usual approval workflows.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Adra\u2019s enables you to monitor journal entry activity from anywhere they are created in Adra with a single, consolidated dashboard with drilldown capabilities. At every step, the journal is tied back to its source with a full audit trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    That means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n