# Get Journal Entry

`GET /accounting/journal-entries/{id}`

Group: Accounting › Journal Entries · Operation ID: `getJournalEntry`

Returns the journal entry with the given identifier, including its lines.

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## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Api-Version` | header | `"v1"` | yes | The API version this request targets, named by its public identifier. Required on every request; omitting it, or naming a version this company does not have, is answered with 400. This document describes version `v1`. |
| `id` | path | string | yes | The unique identifier for the journal entry to return. |

## Response

`200` Success

Under `data` (getJournalEntryOutput):

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for the journal entry. |
| `approvalStatus` | string | no | The approval status of the journal entry. Possible values: 'draft', 'pendingApproval', 'revise', 'approved', 'rejected'. Absent on entries that never entered the approval workflow. |
| `bookId` | string | no | The accounting book this entry posts to. See id on GET accounting/books/:id. |
| `description` | string | no | A free-form description of the journal entry. |
| `name` | string | no | The display name of the journal entry. |
| `postingDate` | string (date) | yes | The date the entry posts to the general ledger. Format YYYY-MM-DD. |
| `reversalDate` | string (date) | no | The reversal date recorded on the entry. Format YYYY-MM-DD. Set only on a reversed entry or a reversal entry. |
| `reversalDescription` | string | no | The description recorded on the reversal. |
| `reversalReason` | string | no | The reason recorded for the reversal. Possible values: 'accrualReversal', 'revaluationReversal', 'estimate', 'rebook', 'reversingSFD', 'other'. |
| `status` | string | yes | The posting status of the journal entry. Possible values: 'posted', 'unposted', 'voided'. |
| `type` | string | no | How the entry originated, for example 'manual', 'invoice', 'revaluation' or 'reversal'. A system-assigned value. |
| `url` | string | no | A link to the source document this entry comes from. |
| `lastModifiedDate` | string (date-time) | yes | The date and time the journal entry last changed, in UTC. Format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ. |
| `lines` | array of object | yes | The debit and credit lines of the entry. |
| `lines[].id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for the line. |
| `lines[].accountId` | string | yes | The general ledger account this line posts to. See id on GET accounting/accounts/:id. |
| `lines[].credit` | string (decimal) | no | The credit amount for this line, in its transactionalCurrency. A line has either a debit or a credit, not both. |
| `lines[].debit` | string (decimal) | no | The debit amount for this line, in its transactionalCurrency. A line has either a debit or a credit, not both. |
| `lines[].description` | string | no | A free-form description of the line. |
| `lines[].entityId` | string | yes | The legal entity this line posts to. See id on GET base/entities. |
| `lines[].intercompanyPartnerId` | string | no | The intercompany counterparty for this line. Set on intercompany lines. |
| `lines[].exchangeRate` | string (decimal) | no | The exchange rate used to convert the line's transactional amount to its functional amount. |
| `lines[].functionalCredit` | string (decimal) | no | The credit amount for this line, in the functional currency. |
| `lines[].functionalCurrency` | string | no | The functional currency of the posting entity. Format ISO 4217, for example 'USD'. |
| `lines[].functionalDebit` | string (decimal) | no | The debit amount for this line, in the functional currency. |
| `lines[].journalEntryId` | string | no | The journal entry this line belongs to. See id on GET accounting/journal-entries/:id. |
| `lines[].lineNumber` | number | no | The line's sequential number within the entry. |
| `lines[].lineType` | string | no | The classification of the line, for example 'standard', 'tax', 'offset' or 'fxRoundingDifference'. A system-assigned value. Absent when the line has no classification. |
| `lines[].postingPeriodId` | string | no | The accounting period this line posts to. See id on GET accounting/accounting-periods/:id. |
| `lines[].revaluation` | boolean | no | Whether a currency-revaluation process created this line. |
| `lines[].sourceTransaction` | string | no | The identifier of the source transaction that generated this line, for example an invoice or payment number. |
| `lines[].transactionalCurrency` | string | no | The currency of the line's transactional amounts. Format ISO 4217, for example 'USD'. |
| `lines[].transactionDate` | string (date) | no | The date of the underlying transaction. Format YYYY-MM-DD. It can differ from the posting date. |
| `lines[].reportingTags` | array of object | no | The reporting tags assigned to this line. Set them with create or update. |
| `lines[].reportingTags[].dimensionCode` | string | yes | The reporting dimension this tag is for. Possible values: 'department', 'businessUnit', 'team', 'location', 'region', 'employee', 'vendor', 'customer', 'valueCenter', 'custom'. |
| `lines[].reportingTags[].modelId` | string | yes | The dimension record this tag points to, on the model that dimensionCode names. |
| `lines[].reportingTags[].customDimensionId` | string | no | The custom dimension this tag belongs to. Present only for a custom-dimension tag. See id on GET base/custom-dimensions. |
| `lines[].reportingTags[].isActive` | boolean | yes | Whether the referenced dimension record is currently active. A historical entry can have tags that point at records since made inactive. |

## Errors

| Code | Status |
| --- | --- |
| `NOT_FOUND` | 400 |

## Statuses

- `400` — Invalid request or business failure. Codes: NOT_FOUND
- `401` — Missing or invalid access token
- `403` — Not authorized
- `404` — Not found
- `429` — Too many requests
- `500` — Internal server error