This is a summary report that shows the overall change to accounts receivable from sales orders and cash receipts. These numbers should reconcile with total sales, total cash receipts (on account), and the general ledger. Every transaction successfully processed by the system should be recorded on a transaction log, which serves as a journal. A transaction log serves two purposes. First, the transaction log is a permanent record of valid transactions. The original transaction file produced at the data input phase is usually only a temporary file. Once processed, the records on this file are erased (scratched) to make room for the next batch of transactions.Second, not all of the records in the temporary transaction file will always be
successfully processed. Some of these records may fail validity tests and will be rejected.
A transaction log should contain only successful transactions. Rejected transactions
should be placed in an error file. The transaction log and error files combined should
account for all the transactions in the batch. The validated transaction file may then be scratched with no loss of data.