C# Code For Making A Double Entry General Ledger Posting - Method 2

Here's my first article: C# Code For Making a Double Entry General Ledger Posting - Method 1

Moving Forward

Figure 1 is the pop up menu from this program for performing double entry postings to Chart Of Accounts. The option titled, “Add And Remove Double Entry Postings” has already been described in the article I wrote by the same name as this one for “Method 1”. “Add And Remove General Ledgers” is for adding and removing general ledgers from Chart Of Accounts. It does not involve the double entry posting process.


Figure 1

The other options described as “CD Ledgers Maintenance” (cash disbursements), “CR Ledgers Maintenance” (cash receipts), “GL Ledgers Maintenance” (general ledger), “J Ledgers Maintenance” (journal entry), “PR Ledgers Maintenance” (payroll) and “ST Ledgers Maintenance” (standard transaction) are double entry posting utilities, which are the subject of this article. In terms of programming, they are all mechanically identical, though the listing of general ledgers within each of these utilities differs. For the purpose of not being redundant, I will describe in detail the functions of the “CD Ledgers Maintenance” Windows form.

A description of the initial posting procedure,


Figure 2

A listing of pre-determined general ledger accounts along with their DR (debit) and CR (credit) columns showing the total debit and credit amounts to be posted to each account are displayed in a list box above in Figure 2. The text boxes located directly below are for entering debit and credit amounts. When you enter an amount in either or both of two text boxes and then click the “Post The Debit And/Or Credit Amounts Entered For The Highlighted GL#” button immediately to the right, the program will post the debit and credit amount(s) entered in the corresponding column in whatever general ledger account in the list box you had previously highlighted with the mouse. There is also a “Yes or No” dropdown for adding the entered amount(s) to the previous fiscal year if desired. And there is a text box for allowing the user to override the current date for this transaction with an alternate date to be entered by the user (the current date is auto entered by default upon loading the form). Figures 3, 4 and 5 below illustrate the initial posting procedure.


Figure 3


Figure 4


Figure 5

We have not actually posted to the Chart Of Accounts yet. These postings are only being added to a sort of staging area as a list box on the Windows form. Here is the C# code that details how the “Post The Debit And/Or Credit Amounts Entered For The Highlighted GL#” button works: