Delete a nominal account
If you no longer want to use a nominal account, you can remove it from the Nominal Ledger.
You can only delete in the following circumstances:
- The account has a balance of zero.
- The account has no transactions held on it either in the current or archived file or held in the waiting postings Transactions that have not yet been posted to the Nominal Ledger. These can be updated by using the Nominal Ledger Update Waiting Postings routine. file.
- The account is not set as the Suspense account in the default nominal accounts.
- The account Code has not been used as the default on a Project Item.
To delete a nominal account
Open: Nominal Ledger > Nominal Accounts > Amend Account details.
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Select the account that you want to delete and then click Delete.
The nominal account is deleted from the Nominal Ledger.
Questions
This occurs if the nominal account Code is set as the default account on a Project Item in Project Accounting.
You can't delete any nominal accounts with this Code regardless of any Code, CC / Dept combination. This is because only the nominal account Code is set as a default on the project item, as any CC / Dept combination is worked out when a project transaction is posted.
You can hide a nominal account when you're no longer using the account.
This removes the nominal account from lists and helps prevent the account being selected by mistake.