What Is a General Ledger-Only Activity?

An activity identifies work being done such as phases of a project, specific tasks, or products that are being developed. You can assign an activity to a transaction, which allows you to track an additional piece of information about the transaction. A General Ledger-only activity is often used to track total costs for a project, such as the total costs of attending a trade show or implementing a software package.

If you use the Project Accounting subset, which is part of General Ledger, you can define activities and assign them to transactions. You can view those activities with the Lawson Drill Around functionality and in reports you create using Transaction Writer (GL55.1). No balances are created for General Ledger-only activities and they are not available for other reporting.