Integration of Budgeting with other Lawson applications

Non-Lawson applications

The Budgeting application enables you to send data to a non-Lawson application. In addition, Budgeting can receive information from non-Lawson applications, such as budget records, through standard upload processes or custom interfaces.

General Ledger

• The Budgeting application uses the balances in the Lawson® General Ledger application to create compute statements to calculate budgets. You can store actual amounts and units in budgets for inquiry.

• The General Ledger application can inquire on budget amounts stored in Budgeting. General Ledger calculates actual versus budget differences.

Report Writer

• You can use the Lawson® Report Writer application to report budgeting amounts and units from the Budgeting application. Compute statements created in Report Writer are used to derive amounts and budgets.

• The Report Writer application creates customized financial reports that include budgets. Budgets are reported using data dictionary names that are stored in the Report Writer application. Data dictionary names for budget amounts have a suffix of BUD. Budget units data dictionary names have a suffix of BUN.

Allocations

• The Lawson® Allocations application allocates lump sum budgets to departmental budgets by using compute statements and defined formulas.

Attribute Matrix

• The Lawson® Attribute Matrix application provides accounting unit lists that you can use to select the accounting units included for a total name. You can use a total name to calculate a budget.