General Features:

• Ability to add federal appropriation entries on budget journals
• Subjournal events performed by user other than creator logged in history
• Line number added to search results
• Import now allows invalid transactions
• Ability to view journal detail within the same home dept
• Ability to electronically attach documents to the journal
• Ability to see old journals whose data has become invalid 
• Observer and Accountant roles now can search for journals
• Links to Account and Object Code searches from within JEMS
• Support for regular journals
• Support for budget journals
• A new look and feel
• Icons replaced with text
• Wizard-like flow to many panels
• Ability to copy or reverse a journal
• Ignore $0.00 transaction amounts in import function
• Import progress panel
• Sortable journal lists
• Visible stop charges on accounts
• Visible allocated transactions
• Import tab-delimited text files (new format)
• Auditing of significant events during preparation of a journal
• Subjournal feature (allows for logical grouping of transactions)
• Purge journals
• Restore journals
• Purge subjournals
• Restore subjournals
• Delete transactions
• Backup documentation cover pages (for attaching to backup)

Validation Features:

• Validate accounts
• Validate object codes
• Project code must be 3 numeric characters
• Leaving this blank results in a value of 000
• Project code must match the account's required project code if one exists
• DUO code must be 3 numeric characters
• Leaving this blank results in a value of 000
• Transaction description cannot exceed 24 characters 
• Transaction amount cannot exceed plus or minus single billions ($x,xxx,xxx,xxx.xx) 
• Journal description cannot exceed 100 characters
• A journal must have a description 
• Approver cannot be same as creator/preparer 
• Approver must have a valid Cornell net ID 
• Journal must be in balance before submission and approval 
• Subjournals do not need to be in balance 
• Backup documentation is tracked
• Account must not be pending 
• You can still enter these, but they won't be posted until the account becomes active
• Account must not have a stop charge
• You can still enter these, but they won't be posted until DFA bypasses the stop charge.

Regular Journal Validation Features:

• All features in the "General Validation Features" section
• The object code must not be a "budget" code use only

Budget Journal Validation Features:

• All features in the "General Validation Features" section
• The object code must not be an "accounting" code use only
• Transactions against sponsored agreement accounts must not have a 'B' (Budget) restriction
• The account must not be a "receivable" account type (type 2)
• Journal must balance across allocated transactions
• Journal must balance within combinations of fund group and division for allocated transactions
• Journal must balance within sponsored agreement accounts
• Transactions against accounts with funds 421 and 471 can only be entered, updated or deleted by users with the "SFA Preparer" role
• Transactions against accounts with funds 456 and 457 can only be entered, updated or deleted by users with the "Federal Smith-Lever Preparer" role
• Transactions against accounts with funds 452 and 453 can only be entered, updated or deleted by users with the "Federal Hatch Preparer" role
• Transactions against accounts with funds 43X can only be entered, updated or deleted by users with the "Cornell Appropriations Preparer" role
• Transactions against accounts with funds 441 and 442 can only be entered, updated or deleted by users with the "NYS Appropriations Preparer" role
• Transactions against accounts with funds 46X can only be entered, updated or deleted by users with the "Designated Funds Preparer" role
• Transactions against accounts with Federal Appropriation funds (45X) must use a Contract College account
• Federal Appropriation journals must use credit object codes in the range 204X-208X
• Federal Appropriation journals are not allowed to be mixed with accounts with funds other than Federal Appropriations
• Federal Appropriation subjournals must balance to zero within object code 208X
• Federal Appropriation subjournals do not allow for transactions with object code 208X whose 4th position matches the account's organization code
• Federal Appropriation subjournals will show an informational message if a subjournal contains multiple funds and/or sources. Message will be displayed after the second and all subsequent lines have been entered