ALB Accounts

ALB Accounts is a separate application for small law firms who require access to creating clients and matters and a full legal accounts system. This enables you to manage all financial transactions and comply with the SRA Accounts rules. It does not give you access to ALB's practice management, diary or document management systems.

It deals with all aspects of accounting including:

• Accounts postings
• Billing
• Nominal postings and journals
• Bank reconciliation
• VAT return
• Interest calculations
• Time recording
• Client creation
• Matter creation
• Archiving
• Dashboards
• Standard reporting

Note It does not provide access to the Purchase Ledger.

ALB Accounts has multiple options for posting to the accounts and accessing accounts information. There are system settings for your departments, worktypes, bill numbering and so on, as well as choices for posting and accounting system types.

The documentation on this help system provides information for all the functionality that ALB provides. As such, the links above have been set up to take you to the functionality that ALB Accounts offers. The links below will provide you with additional help on how to work with ALB Accounts.

• Getting Started
• Accounts
• Label Printing
• Bulk Matter Transfer
• Matter Archiving

The Help will reference some items on screens such as menus and menu commands, tabs or sections whose functionality is not available in ALB Accounts. In these cases:

• Menus or menu items will not display, e.g. Produce correspondence, Add appointments.
• Tabs have been removed, e.g. Diary, Marketing, Extensions.
• Sections have been replaced with sections with available data, e.g. Diary details with Client Details.

This will not affect your ability to use ALB Accounts or the Help system.

ALB Accounts is available for firms from 1 to 5 users. It allows you to improve revenue and as your firm grows, you can upgrade your ALB version to ALB Express, Professional or Enterprise. This will give you access to the full power of the practice management system (PMS) that is ideally suited to solicitor firms and legal departments of any size. Its customisable home page brings all your matters, tasks and documents together, in a layout that best suits you. ALB offers integration with Office programs and timesaving tools to automate tasks, enabling you to focus on fee earning. In addition, a number of Case Management and other optional modules can be integrated.