Lease Accounting process flow

Lease Accounting is comprised of these main processes:

Process Description
Setup tasks
  • Creating lease types*
  • Creating non-lease components*
  • Creating date codes*
  • Creating allocation codes*
  • Set the Lease Accounting Method the Finance Enterprise Group and the Accounting Entity.
  • If you need to track Short and Long Term Liability then select the Short-term Liability Accounting Option the Finance Enterprise Group. Note that this option cannot be changed once leases have been created for the FEG.
  • Creating a lease template

*See the Financials Setup and Administration Guide.

Interface If you are interfacing your data, then perform these tasks:
  • Formatting your non-Infor data so that it can be imported.
  • Importing the data into the Infor interface files
  • Interfacing the lease data
  • Interfacing the lease payment data
  • Interfacing the leased asset data (using Asset Accounting)
  • Releasing the interfaced leases
Processing
  • Creating lease invoices
  • Adjusting invoices
  • Approving lease invoices
  • Interfacing invoices to Payables
  • Calculating interest amounts
  • Posting leases
  • Terminating leases
  • Closing a lease period
Analysis and reporting You must execute the lease classification test before releasing the lease.

These are the methods for viewing and analyzing Lease Accounting data:

  • Online pages
  • Reports
  • The Infor Drill Around® feature

You can also use Global Ledger to increase your reporting and inquiry capabilities.