D. Lawton Associates has more than twenty years of experience in the development, integration, and support of financial accounting systems.

General Ledger/Enterprise Accounting
The General Ledger application is the primary repository of an organization's financial data. DLA has experience in implementing or supporting general ledgers and enterprise accounting systems, including Lawson, Banner, Solomon, SAP and AdaptAccounts. We have extensive experience in creating custom reports from your financial data, including presentation-ready financial statements. Also, we can use database tools to examine your data and assist in recovering from system problems.

Source Systems
In addition to performing specific business functions, any program which generates General Ledger transactions is effectively a sub-ledger. As such, it needs to have accounting integrity, including appropriate security, period cutoff, and an audit trail supporting all accounting entries. DLA has experience in implementing and supporting custom, semi-custom, and packaged accounting applications, including Billing, Accounts Receivable, Inventory, Accounts Payable, and Payroll. We have interfaced all of these source systems as feeds to packaged General Ledger Systems, including Lawson, SAP, Solomon, and AdaptAccounts. Billing, in particular, is often a candidate for a custom development; we have developed custom billing applications for clients in industries as diverse as software (Dun & Bradstreet), catalog sales (SunSetter Products L.P.), securities (ACS Unclaimed Property Clearinghouse), medical testing (State Laboratory Institute) and technology licensing (MIT Technology Licensing Office).

Budgeting
For most organizations, detailed budgeting by cost center and profit center is a key part of financial planning and control. We have built distributed web-based and centralized budgeting systems for MIT, Harvard University, and Boston Medical Center. Features in one or more of these budgeting systems include: an audit trail of budget transactions, position control, automatic calculation of secondary costs, budget versions, global budgeting adjustments, and feeds to General Ledger.