A user who is not a Journal Entry approver is able to automatically approve his/her imported journal entry upon clicking Submit. The expected status upon submission is Pending Approval but instead, the status defaults to Approved for Posting.
The reason for this is because on the Approval Rule for Journal Entry, the Minimum Amount field has a value of 0.00 whereas in the CSV file, the sum of the Debit or Credit amount column totals to a negative value.
- Change the way the value is entered under the Debit or Credit column in the CSV file to be imported (e.g. instead of Debit amount of -1.00, user should enter it as a Credit amount of 1.00) or perform customization on the out-of-the-box workflow
- Perform the usual file import
- Click Submit