General Settings
Opening Balance or Bank Balance Adjustment
How to put in an opening balance. This should only be done to put in a balance when starting a new bank account when you are transferring in an amount from a previous client account or if you are making an adjustment to your bank balance as it ...
Set Default Invoice Date
From the Durell front screen, click on Setup and then General Insurance. In the new window which appears, select the “Posting” tab and you will see the setting to switch between today’s date and the invoice date as a default invoice date.
Sales Ledger Listing
You can generate a report from the sales ledger, to show you all the entries in the ledger based upon criteria you provide. A report can be run to show things like transactions which use a specific nominal or all transactions from a certain time ...
Printing from the Cashbook
From the Durell front screen, select Accounts. Now select Cashbook. Once in the Cashbook, select File, then Print and then Cashbook. Now use the settings in the new window to include or exclude any entries from your print out. Once ready, click ...
Petty Cash
As far as your Durell system is concerned, Petty Cash is effectively a supplier that sells coffee, stamps and biscuits, etc, on credit, that you settle in fixed lumps of, say, £50 each, usually paid in advance. Then each time you use some petty cash ...
Lockdown adjustment Guide
How the lockdown works and what impact this has General Overview Lock Down Function – This feature prevents users from creating entries prior to a stated date. You can apply the same date for all or individually. The above screenshot will prevent all ...
Link a Ledger Entry to a Policy
In the Sales or Purchase Ledger, highlight the row to be linked to a policy. Click on the Signpost button and select “Link to policy…” In the new window that appears, select the client and policy that you would like to link the ledger row to. Once ...
Keying in Tax Payments
From the Durell front screen, click on “Accounts”, then “Purchase Ledger”. Once in the Purchase Ledger, click on the “New” button in order to create a new Purchase Ledger entry You will now be able to key in the details of your tax payment. Check ...
Debtors & Creditors vs Balance Sheet
To start, run a Balance Sheet to look at the state of the accounts, as of the end of January 2019 Once you have input the report credentials as seen above, it will provide you with the Balance Sheet. We can now compare the figures witnessed in the ...
Cost Centres
Overview Cost Centres allow you to analyse your accounts in additional ways, such as by office or department. You can already analyse your Durell accounts under named, or “Nominal”, account headings, such as by… Telephones Stationery Commission ...
Bulk Reconciling
To begin Bulk Reconciling insurer payments or receipts from clients, create a cashbook entry for the relevant payment/receipt and amount, then proceed to the reconciliation screen. From the reconciliation screen, click on the Signpost button and then ...
Analysing Journals
From the Durell front screen, click on “Accounts” and then “Journals” On the page that appears, click on “File”, scroll across on “Print” and then click on “Journals” Input the required date range for the period you would like to analyse and ...
Amend Lockdown
It is possible to input a date into Durell, to prevent any amendment of the accounts, before a specified date. It is called the “Lockdown” and can be used prior to the final account closure tool, the Period End. To set the lockdown, begin from the ...
Aged Debtors Creditors - Insurers
From the Durell homepage click on “Accounts” Then “Aged Debtors” Use the configuration as shown below Click on the ‘Retrospective’ tab Leave date blank for all or input date for retrospective report Press “OK”
Aged Debtors Creditors - Insurers
From the Durell homepage click on “Accounts” Then “Aged Debtors” Use the configuration as shown below Click on the ‘Retrospective’ tab Leave date blank for all or input date for retrospective report Press “OK”
Adjustments (Receipt From Client)
From the Durell Home Screen click on to “Accounts”, then “Cashbook”. Create your cashbook entry by then using the “Snowflake” button Create the cashbook entry for the amount you actually received from the client. Once you click “Reconcile” you will ...
Adding Nominal to the Trial Balance
From the Durell homepage click on “Accounts” Then “Reports” Finally “User Defined” The following nominals in the “Sales Ledger” and “Purchase Ledger” sections will need to be added back into the report Click on “Save” and Trial Balance will now be ...
Adding a Financial Year
From the Durell front page, click on “ Accounts ” , then on “ Setup ” Select the “Financial Year” tab. Click “Add year”, this will add a year to your accounts Durell Guides – Adding a Financial Year Page 1