3301635 - The G/L Account Description is Missing for Some Intercompany Journal Entry Vouchers While Working in Other Language.

You are facing an issue where the G/L Account description is missing for some intercompany Journal Entry Vouchers while working in another language.

In this case, we will use the English and German languages as an example, the same can be applied to other languages too.

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1. Go to General Ledger work center.
2. Go to Intercompany Journal Entry Vouchers subview.
3. Search for the IC Journal Entry Voucher ID: XYZ (XYZ represents the IC Journal Entry Voucher ID).
4. In Details: Line Items of the IC Journal Entry Voucher ID XYZ you will see that G/L Account description is missing for some intercompany Journal Entry Voucher while working in German language.

The G/L account in the Intercompany Journal Entry Vouchers is actually not the G/L Account, it's the G/L account alias (Account Determination Group).

The reason for the issue is that for certain accounts the translation is not maintained correctly.

 To check and maintain the translation correctly for these accounts you need to follow the steps below:

1. Go to Business Configuration WoC.
2. Go to Overview view.
3. Search for Charts of Accounts, Financial Reporting Structures, Account Determination activity.
4. In Account Determination section, click in Costs and select the General Expenses tab.
5. Click Translate > set source language to English and target language to Deutsch (German) > expand the node G/L Account Determination Group.
6. Search for the affected accounts and expand them. 
7. You will see that Target Language is not maintained in German Language. 

You have to maintain the Target Language in German Language, then you will be able to see the G/L account in the German language in the Intercompany Journal Entry Vouchers.

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