Daybooks, also known as journals, are system or user‑defined views of the general ledger and contain all transactions.

Daybooks play an important role in QAD Enterprise Financials, and their use is mandatory. It is recommended to use more than one daybook as a means of grouping transactions. Daybooks can be used to distinguish between different types of journal entries, such as auditor adjustments, payroll entries, GAAP adjustments, and manually prepared accruals.

Daybooks also control the numbering of invoices and credit notes, in addition to GL transaction numbers. Daybooks are linked to an accounting layer, and can be controlled by the financial functions, the operational functions, or externally when a third-party add-on product interface.

The Trial Balance View (25.15.2.9) lets you view balance details for the combinations of analytical elements that meet the selection criteria. You can use the view to ensure that the total of the debit balances equals the total of the credit balances for the selected GL periods.

The right-click option gives you direct access to other reports and views as well as record creation and Excel integration menus.