Nominal - Month and Year End

Nominal - Month and Year End

INTRODUCTION

Agility is an account package and therefore various functions need to be applied for your financial records like Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet & Trial Balance.  There is also the need to close of your periods (month end) and then your Year End.  This document is in relation to the closing of the month and year end and then opening new financial periods of required.

Please note that if you use Agility for your financial records then ONLY close down your month ends when all your Purchase Invoices etc. have been recorded in the system as once these are closed you CANNOT enter.

It is imperative that month ends are closed and agility will warn you if month ends are not closed.  

“Warning, in (x) days you will have no open periods. Please correct immediately or you will not be able to log in.”

MONTH END

To do a month end you need to go to Nominal > Financial Periods > Month & Year End



The following information boxes will appear read and answer appropriately.

Select OK



You will be informed what month is being closed and which is being opened.

Select OK






You will be asked to revalue Sales Ledger, Purchases Ledger and Cash Book the default is NO to these




Say Yes




Once finished select OK




If you have got the above mentioned message then proceed to do this for all your last year open periods.  

YEAR END

Once all the periods have been closed the last month is your year end.

The following message boxes will appear:

Select OK






Select OK

Select YES





You will be asked to revalue Sales Ledger, Purchases Ledger and Cash Book the default is NO to these











Select OK


















Once the Year End is done the Financial Periods Screen opens for you to enter the next number of periods in the next year,  

This is normally 12



















On the right of the form the new periods will appear showing the dates if these are correct Select OK.








Select NO

Yes would only ever be used if the number of periods for the next financial year has changed.

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