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Nominal Ledger Transactions from Stock Movements

A Nominal Ledger Transaction will be generated automatically (if you have so determined in the Sub Systems setting in the Nominal Ledger and in the Number Series - Stock Movements setting) when you mark a Stock Movement as Sent and save it, and again when you mark it as Received and save it.

In normal circumstances, the first Transaction (the "Sent Transaction") will credit the Stock Account of the From Location with a figure based on the S. Old Unit Price and debit that of the Via Location with a figure based on the S. New Unit Price. This Transaction therefore records in the Nominal Ledger the moving of the stock from the From Location to the Via Location. If there is no Via Location, you will not mark the Stock Movement as Sent, and so there will be no Sent Transaction.

The second Transaction (the "Received Transaction") will depend on whether there is a Via Location. If there is a Via Location, the Transaction will credit the Stock Account of the Via Location with a figure based on the R. Old Unit Price and debit that of the To Location with a figure based on the R. New Unit Price. This Transaction therefore records in the Nominal Ledger the moving of the stock from the Via Location to the To Location. If there is no Via Location (i.e. if the Stock Movement was never marked as Sent), the Transaction will credit the Stock Account of the From Location with a figure based on the R. Old Unit Price and debit that of the To Location with a figure based on the R. New Unit Price. This records in the Nominal Ledger the moving of the stock from the From Location to the To Location. If there is no Via Location, you will still need to mark the Stock Movement as Received, and so there will always be a Received Transaction, even if there is no Sent Transaction.

In all cases, if either Stock Account is blank, the Stock Account from the Item Group will be used (if you are using the Use Item Groups for Cost Accounts option in the Cost Accounting setting) or it will be taken from the Account Usage Stock setting. Any difference (i.e. any S. Extra Cost or R. Extra Cost) will be sent to the Stock Gain or Stock Loss Accounts, as also specified in the Account Usage Stock setting.

Once the Sent Transaction has been generated, you can look at it straight away using the 'Open NL Transaction Sent' function on the Operations menu. Similarly, you can look at the Received Transaction using the 'Open NL Transaction Received' function on the Operations menu. Both functions are subject to access rights set in the Access Groups setting in the System module.