The has-new journal is needed with a complete accountancy but useless for the moment in Dolibarr. We work on it. In next version, we add possibility to closed a fiscal year.
You can disabled this journal for the moment and miscellaneous journal too.
I think I need to revive this old thread, because while trying to improve some of the German translations during a set-up of Dolibarr, I came across this mysterious “has-new journal”, which is currently translated literally into German. And knowing a bit of accounting, I am pretty sure, nothing with this wording exists here. Also researching “has-new journals” in the English language sphere did not reveal anything to further understand what the meaning could be.
So I tried starting from the French version “A-nouveaux”. Not being a French speaker, some further googling finally led me to the English variant “opening balance” and all of a sudden, the whole mystery around this journal probably disappeared :-).
Long story short, I would like to check with the knowledgeabele people around this feature, whether “opening entries” could be a valid description of the purpose of this journal? - I would then continue with applying the German translation of this expression.
Yes, it’s for the opening bookings (starting a new fiscal year). It was a rather literal translation from French… I guess before v19 there is no automated use, but it’s probably there for manually created journal entries.