Can someone help me understand why journal entries default as approved? We have the "require approvals on journal entries" preference checked, but it seems odd that journals are just automatically approved when a user enters it. Is this normal behavior?

Doesn't seem like normal, but I'd probably just workflow it and be done with it.

We're talking about implementing the NetSuite journal workflow routing anyway, but was just trying to understand why. I thought it was due to elevated user permissions, but they don't have the Full/Edit level permission so they shouldn't be able to do that. Weird.

Yeah, Time to write a workflow to fix this? 10 minutes. Time to address with NS support? 4 hours. I'm writing the workflow.

Ha exactly! I'm actually not great with workflows and always prefer scripting over the workflows, but I'm using this as an attempt to get better!

I'm not sure if you're talking about the Make Journal Entry permission or Approve Journal permission, but I believe if you have both, it will default to approved.

I think it's because of the approve journal permission actually! So to combat that we are going to implement a workflow. Thank you!