Very basic question about journal entries from a student

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My homework includes entering a number of journal entries such as:

Credit Card Purchase Invoice # WM-639 Dated July 2, 2024 From Welding Monthly, $460, plus $59.80 HST for print advertising. Purchase invoice total $519.80. Charge to Advertising expense. Paid by Chargit.

What I'm trying to understand is where in the menu would this sort of entry be entered?  From "projects" I see "general ledger" and there's an option to "create general journal" which gives a pop-up.  This is a reasonable way to just enter data?  It's just an introduction to Sage 50 course and the textbook is less than clear.  We haven't covered anything like creating purchase orders or invoices specifically.  The "process" button would post this to the general ledger?

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    If your assignment is to enter General Journal Entries, you can enter those by going into Tasks and General Journal Entry. For your example above, your General Journal Entry would have 3 lines - (1) Credit Cash $519.80, (2) Debit Advertising Expense $460.00, and (3) Debit Shipping/Postage Expense $59.80. As an alternative, you can Debit Advertising Expense for both the $460.00 and the $59.80, since technically they are both a part of Advertising Expense. If your assignment is to just make the entry into Sage 50, I would enter this via Tasks and Payments instead, and reserve General Journal Entries for CPA Adjustments or miscellaneous entries that wouldn't be best made through Payments or Receive Money entries.

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