GL Scrutiny: reviewing flagged transactions

How GL Scrutiny works, how to navigate its three views, and what actions are available to resolve exceptions.

General Ledger (GL) Scrutiny reviews automated results and flags exceptions, anomalies, or unusual transactions based on your firm's rules and materiality thresholds. Items flagged include high-value transactions, GST variances, unmapped accounts, or out-of-period postings.

Severity categories

Anomalies are grouped into panels at the top of the screen by severity, defined in your Rules Builder. Hover the info icon next to each panel header for the full definition.

  • Critical: High-priority items needing immediate attention.

  • Warning: Items that require review, lower priority than Critical.

Flagged transactions are highlighted in red, with the triggering values (balance, description, amount, etc.) shown in red so you can spot the issue at a glance.

Three view modes

Switch between views using the toggle at the top right.

Transactions View

The default view. Shows all transactions for a selected account code. Choose the account from the dropdown (top left). The panel displays Opening, Net, and Closing Balance with a toggle to filter All Transactions or Anomalies. Transaction columns include Date, Account Type, Source, Description, Reference, Debit, Credit, Running Balance, GST, GST Rate, and Status.

Status column icons

Each row in the Status column shows icons for actioning the transaction. The icons that appear depend on what has already been done to the transaction. Ignored transactions remain visible in the Anomalies view but appear greyed out, so you can still see what was flagged and revisit it if needed.

  • Comment (speech bubble): Appears after you add a comment to the transaction using the Add Comment action. Click it to view or edit the existing comment. The icon changes colour when a comment is attached.

  • Bin: Appears alongside the comment icon once a comment has been added. Click it to delete the comment from the transaction.

  • Hidden eye: Appears only after a transaction has been ignored using the Ignore Discrepancy action. Click it to restore the transaction so it reappears as an active anomaly. The comment and ignore actions are independent, so this icon can appear with or without the comment icon.

Conditions View

Summary of all active GL Scrutiny conditions and how they triggered across the job. Each row shows the Condition Name, Description, number of Transactions flagged, Affected Accounts, and an Eye Icon to drill in.

High Value Transactions View

Paginated full GL view (150 transactions per page) showing every transaction across the job. Use this to inspect high-value entries or review the full ledger without filtering by severity.

Available actions

  • View GL / Download GL: Inspect or export the uploaded General Ledger.

  • Create Manual Journal (MJ): Fix a coding error directly from the flagged transaction.

  • Ignore Discrepancy: Dismiss a flag that has been reviewed and accepted.

  • Add Comment: Note for the team or reviewer.

Run Zato is available directly inside GL Scrutiny so you can re-run automation after making changes without navigating away.

How to access

  1. Go to Jobs and click the Results Icon on the job.

  2. Select GL Scrutiny.