How To Track the Approver of a Journal Approval Notification?

The journal approval process is designed primarily to control the posting of journals only after the appropriate approvals have been obtained.

Journal approval does not provide an audit trail of the approvals or a history of the Journal Approval notifications.

- Before R12 it does not store the approver information in the journal or the GL tables.

- Since R12 the field APPROVER_EMPLOYEE_ID in table GL_JE_BATCHES keeps the approver of the batch (eventually this may not correspond to the user that effectively did the approval, as for example in case of delegation).

If you look at the workflow notifications associated with the routing of the journal approval process, you do get some information on who originated the entry, who needs to approve it, whether it has been approved or rejected etc. and this can serve as some form of audit information.