Thanks for the feedback @Candice C , I really appreciate it!   However, I have already looked into all those options you mentioned and none will work for what I'm trying to accomplish.  I'm actually very surprised that QB does not have the functionality I'm looking for and I'm equally surprised that more users haven't asked for it. 

I absolutely love the idea of custom fields because it allows me to perform special reporting and analysis specific to our company.  However, if I can't enter our custom fields into a JE and can't break a single vendor invoice down to different custom field values (Job# in our case), than the use of custom fields becomes useless to me.  Seems like this is something QB could accomplish without too much effort, but than again, I'm a number cruncher, not an IT guru.  I love QB but it looks like I'll have to find another accounting software that can perform this simple functionality.