Tools / Options - uncheck Audit setup activity. If the box is checked in any module, you will get the journal. However, setting up a new customer or vendor is a good check, to be sure no one unauthorized is setting up or changing vendors.

If I go to Common Tasks, Tools - options is grayed out and I am not able to click it?  Since I am the only person in AP and AR, I feel it is safe to not have the journal

As a consultant I highly recommend turning off the setting "Audit setup activity". This setting may allow users to modify values that are maintained by the software - Vendor 1099 amounts paid, for example, but also GL Account balances. Manually updated these values should only be done in rare cases and under controlled settings. As you have found adding new records will also generate the print file, but this is harmless beyond wasting paper. It does help to let users know that the setting is ON and it should be turned OFF.

Hi Lisa,

To access Tools, Options you must be an Application Administrator in Sage 300 CRE, and you can't have anything else open other than Sage Desktop.

If you have anything else open, or you are not an administrator, Options would be grayed out.