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Nominal Ledger Enquiry drill down.

September 2008

Found on  the menu at Ledgers > Nominal > Ledger Enquiry, this can be an extremely useful tool for budgetary planning, variance analysis and general accounts interrogation.

The Groups tab displays a monthly summary by Nominal Ledger Group (or Header) with budgets and variances.

Nominal Ledger Enquiry Drill Down

Highlight a Nominal Group and select the Accounts tab to show a similar display of all the Nominal Accounts (or Tails) that make up the total for the selected Nominal Group.

Nominal Ledger Enquiry Drill Down

Next, highlight a Nominal Account and select the Details tab to display the transaction detail for the selected Nominal Account.  This is essentially the same as the Nominal Account Enquiry form and you can drill down from here to the audit trail record for each transaction.

 Nominal Ledger Enquiry Drill Down

So, in one form, you can drill down from the highest Group-level summary analysis to individual transaction details to help you support and explain the summary.

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