Lease Management process flow

Lease Accounting is comprised of these main processes:

Process Description
Setup tasks
  • Creating lease types (optional)

  • Creating non-lease components (optional)

  • Creating data codes (optional)

  • Creating a lease (required)

  • Creating a lease payment (required)

  • Running the FAS 13 test (optional)

  • Creating one or more leased assets for the lease (required only for financial leases)

  • Creating attribute values (optional)

  • Releasing the lease (required)

Interface
  • Formatting your non-Lawson data for importing purposes

  • Importing the data into the Lawson interface files

  • Interfacing the lease data

  • Interfacing the lease payment data

  • Interfacing leased asset data (using Asset Management)

  • Releasing the interfaced leases

Processing
  • Adjusting invoices (optional)

  • Approving mass invoices (optional)

  • Creating lease invoices (required)

  • Approving lease invoices (required)

  • Interfacing invoices to Accounts Payable (required)

  • Calculating interest amounts (required only for financial leases)

  • Posting leases (required)

  • Terminating leases (optional)

  • Closing a lease period (required)

  • Purging leases (optional)

Analysis and reporting

Lease Management use these methods for viewing and analyzing data:

  • Online forms

  • Reports

  • The Lawson Drill Around feature

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