General Ledger

The General ledger setup area in Administration is where you define your account structure, general ledger accounts, account and account code mappings, and segment mappings. When you define the structure of the account, you can specify the number of segments, their order, and the length of each. You can then create accounts and map segment values to various data elements throughout the system.

We recommend you plan out your account structure before defining it in the system. Then you must ensure that all account and account code values are mapped to the appropriate general ledger distributions for all the offices within your organization. The structure you define should match your actual general ledger structure. For example, your account structure may be:

Fund - Account Code - Department - Location - Designation

Setting up an account structure and mapping it to your general ledger allows you to integrate Blackbaud software with your general ledger solution.

To access the General Ledger Setup page, go to Administration and select General ledger setup.