How To: Create a Sales Nominal Account for a Stock Item

Creating a sales nominal and mapping it against a stock item, for example a voucher, would allow users to report on the sales of that stock item. The sales would not be added to the main sales nominal. There are two stages involved:

1. Creating the sales nominal.
2. Mapping the sales nominal against the stock item.
   

See Sales Nominal Hierarchy for the sales nominal hierarchy.

Notes:

• The system will warn the user when saving a new entry if a duplicate nominal code has been created. The user can acknowledge the warning and continue or change the code used before saving again.
• If the option Post header totals only (Sales) is enabled in [ System Values | Accounts | General | General ] then manufacturer / stock type / stock item nominal mappings cannot be used.
• You cannot have duplicate nominal codes.
  Note : If you have duplicate nominal codes before upgrading to a version that does not allow duplicate codes, if you go into edit mode and try to save then a warning will appear and you will not be able to save.
  

Create the Sales Nominal

1. Open an Accounts screen (show me how).
2. Open the [ Accounts | Nominal Accounts | Nominal Accounts ] tab.
3. Press Alt+E or click to enter edit mode.
4. Press F3 or click to add a new item.
5. Enter the following information:
   1. Code: enter the Nominal Code.
   2. Description: for example Voucher Sales.
   3. System Type: Sale
   4. Account Type: Stock Item
6. Press Ctrl+S or click to save changes
   
   

Mapping the sales nominal against the stock item

1. Open a Stock screen (show me how).
2. Find and load the stock item.
3. Press Alt+E or click to enter edit mode.
4. Go to the [ Stock | Detail | Accounting ] tab.
5. Set the SNominal: to the new nominal, in this example Voucher Sales.
6. Press Ctrl+S or click to save.

See Also

• Accounts overview
• System Nominal Accounts