Nominals

Nominal Enquiry shows details of a selected nominal account.

ALB has a number of pre-set system nominals. In addition, there are non-system nominals that are defined and maintained by your system administrator in Utilities - Accounts.

Each nominal has a type, and its type determines whether it is a Profit and Loss nominal or a Balance Sheet nominal.

On Nominal Enquiry you can...

• Search for a nominal you want to view; more about searching for a nominal

• View the nominal account; more about the Nominal Enquiry fields

• View details of transactions for a period or year

• View the nominal account as a printable report

• Export the nominal account to Microsoft Excel

• Open nominal posting screens

To view details of transactions:

1. On Nominal Enquiry, with the nominal account displayed, double-click the period or year you are interested in. Nominal Transactions opens listing the transactions for this period. More about Nominal Transactions screen.

To open a printable report of the nominal:

1. On Nominal Enquiry, click the Reports menu and select Nominal Enquiry.

2. The Nominal Details report opens. If you want to print it, click .

To export the nominal account report to Excel:

1. On Nominal Enquiry, click the Reports menu and select Export to Excel.

2. On Save As, browse to the location where you want to save the exported file, type a File name and click Save. The nominal account opens in Excel.

Opening nominal posting screens

You can open the four nominal related posting screens directly from Nominal Enquiry.

To open a nominal posting screen:

1. On Nominal Enquiry, click the Postings menu and select the posting you need.

Other ways to open posting screens

You can also open posting screens via:

• the Accounts Postings menu on the ribbon

• the Accounts Enquiry Postings menu

• the ALB Quick Access Menu button, in the top left corner of Accounts, Postings menu Nominals option

Related topics

• Searching for a nominal

• Nominal Enquiry fields

• System Administration