How Accounts Receivable Interfaces With Other Lawson Applications

General Ledger

Accounts Receivable sends distributions to General Ledger for revenue, cash payments, cash applications, deductions, finance charges, and tax accruals.

Strategic Ledger

Accounts Receivable transactions can be associated with strategic and managerial information by assigning user analysis values, which improves reporting and analysis.

Project Accounting

Accounts Receivable sends cash application information to Project Accounting which allows you to generate agings by activity.

Project Accounting sends invoice information created in Billing and Revenue Management to update customer records.

Billing

Billing uses the customer information established in Accounts Receivable.

Billing sends invoices, and credit memos to Accounts Receivable.

Order Entry

Accounts Receivable can place customers on hold so they cannot place new order in Order Entry.

Order Entry uses the customer information established in Accounts Receivable.

Order Entry updates the open order amount after the orders are released for each customer in Accounts Receivable.

Accounts Payable

If an Accounts Receivable customer is also one of your vendors, a relationship can be established to obtain a net balance between the two. Open receivable records can be interfaced into Accounts Payable which will create a payable record (either a debit or credit memo depending on the balance).

Tax

Accounts Receivable sends tax transactions to the Tax application where global tax codes have been established.

Franchise Management

Franchise Management uses customer information to create customer contracts and invoice transaction records.

Currency

Accounts Receivable uses currency codes and exchange rates defined in the Currency applications.

Cash Management

Accounts Receivable sends entries for deposits, adjustments (i.e., service fees), and return to maker (RTM) transactions to Cash Management.

Terms

Term codes determine due dates, discount dates and discount amounts on transactions created in Accounts Receivable.