NAV functional terminology
For various application functions, NAV uses terminology more similar to accounting than to traditional data processing. Some examples are listed as follows:
- Journal: A table of unposted transaction entries, each of which represents an event, an entity, or an action to be processed. There are General Journals for general accounting entries, Item Journals for changes to inventory, and so on.
- Ledger: A detailed history of posted transaction entries that have been processed. For example, General Ledger, Customer Ledger, Vendor Ledger, Item Ledger, and so on. Some Ledgers have subordinate detail ledgers, typically providing a greater level of quantity and/or value detail.
- Posting: The process by which entries in a Journal are validated, and then entered into one or more Ledgers.
- Batch: A group of one or more Journal entries posted at the same time.
- Register: An audit trail showing the history, by Entry No. ranges, of posted Journal Batches.
- Document: A formatted...