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What’s New in Lawson Enterprise Financial Management Suite 9.0
Burke Stucker
Financials Product Strategist
Thursday, March 9th 2006
Enterprise Financials Management 9.0
• Better reporting over the data you have• Deriving business benefits from compliance• Driving business efficiency through good practice• Realising the value of IT investments• Cost Containment
Lawson Planning and Budgeting
• Ease of use with Lawson Back Office – GL
• Companies• Accounting Units• Chart of Accounts • Attributes (user defined fields)
– Accounting Unit and Lists
– Account and Lists
– Flex Budgeting (FB) bi-directional
– Currency
– HR– Position/Job Codes
– Pay Codes
– Employer-paid Benefits/Deductions
– Employees
Lawson Planning and Budgeting
• Multiple Budgets
• Variance Analysis
• Actuals in User Interface
• Budget Approval Workflows
General Ledger
• Journal operator– Recurring journals – originator or submitter
• Annual budget amount report– Summarized totals
• Transaction inquiry– Filter by posting date range
• Allocations totals– Break by journal and company
FB215a
GL190-1a
GL170a
Project Accounting
• Asset Management Interface
• Budget Edits At Posting Level
• Account Category Attributes
• GL Budget Interface
• Activity Group and Activity Templates
• Capitalization Enhancement
Billing and Revenue Management
• Customer Setup Template
• Activity Aging Report
• Percent Complete at Account Category
• Expanded Contract Field Size
Cash Ledger…
• Cash Code Lists– Similar to accounting units
– Dynamic build
• Positive Pay– Parallel file passed to bank with check run
– Prevent fraud
• Stale Dating– Checks not cashed within certain time period are reported
– Support compliance with local legislation
MX10-1a
CB170a
CB186a
Cash Ledger
• Statement Reconciliation– Flexible criteria
– Online matching
– Permanent database file
• Interfaces– Online maintenance
– One-to-many distributions
CB82-1a
CB50-1a
Asset Management
• Posting and In Service Date Overrides
• Project Accounting Interface
• Purchase Date Option – AM220
• Depreciation Recalculation Report
Lease Management
• Down Payments
• Security Deposits
• Vendor (Lessor) Change
• Straight Line Schedule Payment Changes
• Renewal and Extension
Accounts Payable
• Vendor payment tracking– By period– Prior & current financial years
• Vendor PO inactivation– Prevent creation of new POs– Allow exiting POs to complete cycle
• Diversity code certification– Report on valid dates of certification
– Completion of Optional Form 312
AP90-6a
AP10-1a
AP10-1b
Lawson Expense Management
• Approval Routing
• Expense Proxy
• Per Diem Wizard
• Hotel Wizard
• Expense Policy
Accounts Receivable
• Deduction Management
• Self Balancing Report
• AR by Activity
Grant Management…
• Salary Cap Enhancements
• Effort Reporting Enhancements
• Labor Cost Transfer Enhancements
• Encumber F&A Costs on Commitments
Strategic Ledger
• Allocations– One-to-many allocation within user analysis segment
– Copy, delete, report allocation journal
Enterprise Financials Management 9.0
• Better reporting over the data you have• Deriving business benefits from compliance• Driving business efficiency through good practise• Realising the value of IT investments• Cost Containment
