Implementations
Journals are used in Microsoft Dynamics NAV for, among others, the General Ledger, Inventory, Intrastat, Resources, Jobs, Cost Accounting, Fixed Assets, Insurance, and Warehouse. Examples of pages, based on the same journal tables, are the Payment Journal, the Phys. Inventory Journal, and the Production Journal.
Hierarchy
The Job Journal, the Resource Journal, the Journal Item, and the General Journal in Microsoft Dynamics NAV have a hierarchy. The following diagram illustrates this:
When a Job Journal Line is posted, the Item consumption, or the Resource Consumption can be posted using the required journal, which then might trigger the General Journal again, if this has implications for the financial backend. This posting can be executed asynchronously for performance reasons.
Note
The hierarchy is described in Chapter 1, Introduction to Microsoft Dynamics NAV, in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Design, published by Packt Publishing.