I've used Quickbooks since the first day it first launched, and have used it through all iterations since then, as a business owner (large and small) and as a CPA. I wish I knew how to relay to Intuit that the failure to have the name-field from journal entries print on the G/L is simply a flaw in the program. And a serious one. I read the whole stream below of "why it doesn't" and how to work around it. Those who think JEs are "brute force" tools and should not be used just don't know old-school accounting. But regardless, there is simply no good reason that the G/L will not print names from journal entries. And the lack makes normal accounting by a knowledgeable CPA virtually impossible in scenarios (and there are plenty) when journal entries are needed. If anyone knows how to deliver messages to Intuit, please ask them to fix this.

Thanks!