action codat_get_journal_entry {
  label: "Get journal entry"
  description: "Gets a single JournalEntry corresponding to the given ID."
  provider: codat
  method: GET
  path: "/companies/{companyId}/data/journalEntries/{journalEntryId}"
  encoding: json
  input: {
    type: "object"
    properties: {
      journalEntryId: {
        type: "string"
      }
    }
    required: ["journalEntryId"]
    additionalProperties: false
  }
  output: {
    type: "object"
    description: "> **Language tip:** For the top-level record of a company's financial transactions, refer to the [Journals](https://docs.codat.io/accounting-api#/schemas/Journal) data type\n\n> View the coverage for journal entries in the <a className=\"external\" href=\"https://knowledge.codat.io/supported-features/accounting?view=tab-by-data-type&dataType=journalEntries\" target=\"_blank\">Data coverage explorer</a>.\n\n## Overview\n\nA journal entry report shows the entries made in a company's general ledger, or [accounts](https://docs.codat.io/accounting-api#/schemas/Account), when transactions are approved. The journal line items for each journal entry should balance.\n\nA journal entry line item is a single transaction line on the journal entry. For example: \n\n- When a journal entry is recording a receipt of cash, the credit to accounts receivable and the debit to cash are separate line items. \n- When a company needs to recognise revenue from an annual contract on a monthly basis, on receipt of cash for month one, they make a debit to deferred income and a credit to revenue.\n\nIn Codat a journal entry contains details of:\n\n- The date on which the entry was created and posted.\n- Itemised lines, including amounts and currency.\n- A reference to the associated accounts.\n- A reference to the underlying record. For example, the invoice, bill, or other data type that triggered the posting of the journal entry to the general ledger. \n\n> **Pushing journal entries**  \n> Codat only supports journal entries in the base currency of the company that are pushed into accounts denominated in the same base currency."
  }
}