questions about interzone and intercompany balancing

unknown

Question for the next Finance Office Hours session: we currently use zones and GL30 for our different legal entities. With interzone balancing we seem to be unable to determine the receivable/payable zone because everything has to go through a base zone. Maybe it's how our original setup was done years ago, but I am curious if there is a way to set it up so that there is a 2-line JE from zone 1 to zone 2, you can see the ZB entry for zone 1 and know the offset is with zone 2? Right now all we can see is that the offset is with the base zone. Another option: what if we moved away from the 'zone' setup to a multiple company setup - does intercompany balancing handle automated balancing entries differently, or better, than interzone?

unknown

GL40.2 (New JE button) has a 'Base zone' field.  If you update this to be a zone involved in the transaction instead of allowing the default from GL10, the system will calculate directly between those two zones.  Of course, if you have more than two zones involved, you still have the base zone problem.  The alternative is to break up the entries or manually calculate and enter the due to/from sides of the entry, neither of which is possible (I don't think?) on interfaced entries from subsystems.