Glossary
Journal
The journal is the workbench of bookkeeping. Everything that is going to be booked sits here first: bank lines, invoices, receipts and the entries you write yourself. Only when you book do they move into the accounts. The Danish word is kasseklade.
Updated 21 October 2026
What is the journal?
The name goes back to the days when the cashier wrote the day's receipts and payments in a draft before entering them in the ledger. The principle is the same today: the draft is temporary and may be corrected, the ledger is final. A journal line has a date, an amount, an account, an offset account, a VAT code and a description.
Example: a payment to a supplier of 1,250 kr. sits in the journal with the bank as the offset account and the office supplies account as the account. If the account is wrong, you correct it in the draft. Once the line is booked it can no longer be edited, only reversed.
Journal in Veneti
In Veneti every bank line, supplier invoice and receipt lands as a voucher in the journal with a suggested account and VAT code and the reasoning beside the line. Where there is doubt, you choose between the suggestions with one click. Nothing is booked before you have reviewed the lines and pressed Book. Read more under Banking and coding.
Customer invoices and general journal entries start in the journal too. The reports show the journal's entries beside the booked ones, so a month can be reviewed before it is booked. Get started.
Related terms
- Voucher: every row in the journal is a voucher.
- General journal entry: the entry you write in the journal yourself.
- Reversal: how an entry is corrected once it is booked.