There are management initiatives that would be best served if these were tightly integrated with the transactional system. The following tasks highlight these aspects to ensure that this control is enforced.
In pre-R12 versions the subledgers all transferred to GL and the balancing lines were created after they were transferred to GL. The balancing transactions were primarily a GL activity. Thus, if you had intercompany transactions you would not see the balancing entries in the subledgers. This has changed in R12 and the balancing entries are created in the SLA, which is part of the subledgers.
Access to the SLA journal functionality is through the subledgers and not the GL. You do not have a separate product (or responsibility) that allows access to the SLA; there are functions within the subledger products that allow access to the relevant capabilities, forms, and reports in SLA.
You cannot close the subledgers unless these SLA journals...