Commitments

A commitment, also called an encumbrance, is a reservation of funds for requested products and services. A commitment record is created from many Lawson applications and is used during budget editing as part of the calculation to arrive at the remaining budget balance.

This is a list of Lawson modules that can create and update commitment records in General Ledger:

• (RQ) Requisitions

• (AC) Project Accounting

• (AP) Accounts Payable

• (CA) Cost Allocations

• (CB) Cash Management

• (EE) Employee Expense

• (GL) General Ledger

• (PO) Purchase Order

• (PR) Payroll

• (RJ) Recurring Journal