# Manage journals

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User permission: Financial Statements > Data Entry
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On the **Data Entry** tab on your **Financial Statements** homepage, you can take the following journal-related actions:

* View a list of all journals.
* Open a journal to view its details and take further action (depending on its status):
  * Edit or publish a draft journal.
  * Duplicate a published journal.
* [Create a new journal](/financial-statements/adding-data/journals/create-a-journal.md).
* Delete draft journals.

## Open a journal

Click the journal to open it. What you can do next depends on the journal's status.

## Edit a draft journal

Open the draft journal, make your changes, then either close or publish it, as required.

## Delete a draft journal

Click the kebab menu at the end of the draft journal row and click **Delete**. The row is deleted instantly.

## Publish a draft journal

Open the draft journal, review its entries, then click **Publish**. [Learn more about publishing journals](https://docs.phocassoftware.com/financial-statements/adding-data/journals/pages/FjcV4a1G2b6lBrNZHTC5#id-5.-publish-the-journal).

## Duplicate a journal

Duplicate a published or reversal journal to create a template you can use for future journals of a similar type. For example, you'll likely have a set of journals you add every month, you can duplicate a journal then update the dates and values.

Open the journal and click **Duplicate**, then enter a name and click **Duplicate**. Proceed to edit and publish the new journal, or close it in the draft state and return to it later.

## Reverse a journal

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Currently, the reversal is a two-step process. The ability to reverse journal entries automatically is coming soon.
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Reversing a journal creates a perfect offset of the original journal. While you can edit the date, you can't edit any of the other journal details.

1. Open the published journal and click **Reverse**. 
2. Select the reversing date:
   * **Same day**: Suitable for reversing journals that were added by mistake or contain errors.
   * **Next day**: Typically used for month end reversing journals.
   * **Custom date**: Suitable for reversing journals that had several lines containing a variety of dates, as you can define a date that best reflects them all.
3. Click **Preview** and review the entries in the draft reversal journal. 
   * If you need to, you can quickly go back to the original journal by clicking the link at the top, then click **Reverse** to continue with the reversal.
   * If you click **Close**, you return to the **Data entry** tab. You can return to the draft reversal later.
4. Click **Publish** to create the reversing journal. You now have two journals; the original and the reversal where the values are automatically reversed for you. 
   * You can see both journals in the **Data entry** tab on your Financial Statements homepage, with the **Status** column differentiating each one.
   * You can see both journals in the [Analytics grid](/financial-statements/adding-data/journals/view-and-analyze-journal-data.md). The reversal journals have (Reversal) appended to the journal name in the **JNL Name** column.


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