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account hierarchy
An Oracle Financials feature you use to perform summary level funds checking. An account hierarchy lets Purchasing and Multiple Reporting Currencies quickly determine the summary accounts into which your detail accounts roll up.
Account segment
One of up to 30 different sections of your Accounting Flexfield, which together make up your general ledger account code. Each segment is separated from the other segments by a symbol you choose (such as -, /, or \). Each segment typically represents an element of your business structure, such as Company, Cost Center or Account.
Account segment value
A series of characters and a description that define a unique value for a particular value set.
account structure
See Accounting Flexfield structure.
accounting calendar
The calendar that defines your accounting periods and fiscal years in Oracle General Ledger. You define accounting calendars using the Accounting Calendar window. Oracle Financial Analyzer will automatically create a Time dimension using your accounting calendar.
Accounting Flexfield
The code you use to identify a general ledger account in an Oracle Financials application. Each Accounting Flexfield segment value corresponds to a summary or rollup account within your chart of accounts.
Accounting Flexfield structure
The account structure you define to fit the specific needs of your organization. You choose the number of segments, as well as the length, name, and order of each segment in your Accounting Flexfield structure.
Accounting Flexfield value set
A group of values and attributes of the values. For example, the value length and value type that you assign to your account segment to identify a particular element of your business, such as Company, Division, Region, or Product.
ad hoc
Concerned with or formed for a particular purpose. For example, ad hoc tax codes or an ad hoc database query.
aggregate balance
The sum of the end-of-day balances for a range of days. There are three types of aggregate balances: period-to-date (PTD), quarter-to-date (QTD), and year-to-date (YTD). All three are stored in the General Ledger database for every calendar day.
allocation entry
A recurring journal entry you use to allocate revenues or costs.
alternative region
An alternative region is one of a collection of regions that occupy the same space in a window where only one region can be displayed at any time. You identify an alternative region by a poplist icon that displays the region title, which sits on top of a horizontal line that spans the region.
archive table
Multiple Reporting Currencies copies your account balances from the Balances Table (GL_BALANCES) to your Archive Table (GL_ARCHIVE_BALANCES). Multiple Reporting Currencies copies your journal details from the Journal Entry tables (GL_JE_BATCHES, GL_JE_HEADERS, and GL_JE_LINES) to your archive tables (GL_ARCHIVE_BATCHES, GL_ARCHIVE_HEADERS, and GL_ARCHIVE_LINES).
archive tablespace
The tablespace where your archive table is stored. A tablespace is the area in which an Oracle7 database is divided to hold tables.
attribute
An Oracle Financial Analyzer database object that links or relates the values of two dimensions. For example, you might define an attribute that relates the Sales District dimension to the Region dimension so that you can select data for sales districts according to region.
AutoCopy - budget organizations
A feature that automatically creates a new budget organization by copying account assignments from an existing budget organization.
AutoCopy - budgets
A feature that automatically creates a new budget by copying all of the data from an existing budget. Budget AutoCopy copies budget amounts only from open budget years.
AutoOffset
A feature that automatically determines the offset (or credit) entry for your allocation entry. AutoOffset automatically calculates the net of all previous journal lines in your allocation entry, reverses the sign, and generates the contra amount.
AutoReduction
An Oracle Applications feature in the list window that allows you to shorten a list so that you must scan only a subset of values before choosing a final value. Just as AutoReduction incrementally reduces a list of values as you enter additional character(s), pressing [Backspace] incrementally expands a list.
AutoSelection
A feature in the list window that allows you to choose a valid value from the list with a single keystroke. When you display the list window, you can type the first character of the choice you want in the window. If only one choice begins with the character you enter, AutoSelection selects the choice, closes the list window, and enters the value in the appropriate field.
AutoSkip
A feature specific to flexfields where Oracle Applications automatically moves your cursor to the next segment as soon as you enter a valid value into a current flexfield segment. You can turn this feature on or off with the user profile option Flexfields:AutoSkip.
average balance
The amount computed by dividing an aggregate balance by the number of calendar days in the related range.
average exchange rate
An exchange rate that is the average rate for an entire accounting period. General Ledger automatically translates revenue and expense account balances using period-average rates in accordance with FASB 52 (U.S.). And, for companies in highly inflationary economies, General Ledger uses average exchange rates to translate your non-historical revenue and expense accounts in accordance with FASB 8 (U.S.). Also known as period-average exchange rate.

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back-value transactions
Transactions whose effective date is prior to the current accounting date. Also known as value-dated transactions.
balances table
A General Ledger database table that stores your account balances, called GL_BALANCES.
balancing segment
An Accounting Flexfield segment that you define so that General Ledger automatically balances all journal entries for each value of this segment. For example, if your company segment is a balancing segment, General Ledger ensures that, within every journal entry, the total debits to company 01 equal the total credits to company 01.
bank statement
A report sent from a bank to a customer showing all transaction activity for a bank account for a specific period of time. Bank statements report beginning balance, deposits made, checks cleared, bank charges, credits, and ending balance. Enclosed with the bank statement are cancelled checks, debit memos, and credit memos. Large institutional banking customers usually receive electronic bank statements as well as the paper versions.
block
Every Oracle Applications window (except root and modal windows) consists of one or more blocks. A block contains information pertaining to a specific business entity Generally, the first or only block in a window assumes the name of the window. Otherwise, a block name appears across the top of the block with a horizontal line marking the beginning of the block.
budget
Estimated cost, revenue, labor hours or other quantities for a project or task. Each budget may optionally be categorized by resource. Different budget types may be set up to classify budgets for different purposes. In addition, different versions can exist for each user-defined budget type: current, original, revised original, and historical versions. The current version of a budget is the most recently baselined version.
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budget formula
A mathematical expression used to calculate budget amounts based on actual results, other budget amounts and statistics. With budget formulas, you can automatically create budgets using complex equations, calculations and allocations.
budget hierarchy
A group of budgets linked at different levels such that the budgeting authority of a lower-level budget is controlled by an upper-level budget.
budget interface table
An Oracle General Ledger database table that stores information needed for budget upload.
budget organization
An entity (department, cost center, division or other group) responsible for entering and maintaining budget data. You define budget organizations for your company, then assign the appropriate accounts to each budget organization.
budget rules
A variety of shorthand techniques you can use to speed manual budget entry. With budget rules you can divide a total amount evenly among budget periods, repeat a given amount in each budget period or enter budget amounts derived from your account balances.
budget upload
The ability to transfer budget information from a spreadsheet to Multiple Reporting Currencies. For example, with the spreadsheet interface you can upload budget information from your spreadsheet to Multiple Reporting Currencies.
budgetary account
An account segment value (such as 6110) that is assigned one of the two budgetary account types. You use budgetary accounts to record the movement of funds through the budget process from appropriation to expended appropriation.
Budgetary Account
An account that contains a budgetary account.
budgetary account type
Either of the two account types Budgetary DR and Budgetary CR.
budgetary control
An Oracle Financials feature you use to control actual and anticipated expenditures against a budget. When budgetary control is enabled, you can check funds online for transactions, and you can reserve funds for transactions by creating encumbrances. Oracle Financials automatically calculates funds available (budget less encumbrances less actual expenditures) when you attempt to reserve funds for a transaction. Oracle Financials notifies you online if funds available are insufficient for your transaction.
business day
Days on which financial institutions conduct business. In General Ledger, you choose which days of the calendar year are defined as business days. You can include or exclude weekends and holidays as needed.
business entity
A person, place, or thing that is tracked by your business. For example, a business entity can be an account, a customer, or a part.
business group
The highest level of organization and the largest grouping of employees across which a company can report. A business group can correspond to an entire company, or to a specific division within the company.
button
You choose a button to initiate a predefined action. Buttons do not store values. A button is usually labeled with text to describe its action or it can be an icon whose image illustrates its action.

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child segment value
A detail-level segment value that is part of a parent segment value. See also parent segment value.
chart of accounts
The account structure your organization uses to record transactions and maintain account balances.
chart of accounts structure
A classification of account segment values that assigns a particular range of values a common characteristic. For example, 1000 to 1999 might be the range of segment values for assets in the account segment of your accounting flexfield.
check box
You can indicate an on/off or yes/no state for a value by checking or unchecking its check box. One or more check boxes can be checked since each check box is independent of other check boxes.
child request
A concurrent request submitted by another concurrent request (a parent request.) For example, each of the reports and/or programs in a report set are child requests of that report set.
column set
A Financial Statement Generator report component you build within Multiple Reporting Currencies by defining all of the columns in a report. You control the format and content of each column, including column headings, spacing and size, calculations, units of measure, and precision. A typical column set includes a header column for headings and subheadings, currency assignments, amount types, and calculation columns totals.
You can also define a column set with each column representing a different company to enhance consolidation reporting.
combination block
A combination block displays the fields of a record in both multi-record (summary) and single-record (detail) formats. Each format appears in its own separate window that you can easily navigate between.
combination of segment values
A combination of segment values uniquely describes the information stored in a field made up of segments. A different combination of segment values results when you change the value of one or more segments. When you alter the combination of segment values, you alter the description of the information stored in the field.
combination query
See Existing Combinations.
commitment
An encumbrance you record when you complete a purchase requisition.
concurrent manager
A unique facility that manages many time-consuming, non-interactive tasks within Oracle Applications for you, so you do not have to wait for their completion. When you submit a request in Oracle Applications that does not require your interaction, such as releasing shipments or running a report, the Concurrent Manager does the work for you, enabling you to complete multiple tasks simultaneously.
concurrent process
A non-interactive task that you request Oracle Applications to complete. Each time you submit a non-interactive task, you create a new concurrent process. A concurrent process runs simultaneously with other concurrent processes (and other interactive activities on your computer) to help you complete multiple tasks at once.
concurrent queue
A list of concurrent requests awaiting completion by a concurrent manager. Each concurrent manager has a queue of requests waiting to be run. If your system administrator sets up your Oracle Application to have simultaneous queuing, your request can wait to run in more than one queue.
concurrent request
A request to Oracle Applications to complete a non-interactive task for you. You issue a request whenever you submit a non-interactive task, such as releasing a shipment, posting a journal entry, or running a report. Once you submit a request, Oracle Applications automatically takes over for you, completing your request without further involvement from you or interruption of your work.
consolidation
A General Ledger feature that allows you to combine the results of multiple companies, even if they are in different sets of books with different currencies, calendars, and charts of account. The Consolidated Billing Invoice program lets you print a single, monthly invoice that includes all of your customer's transactions for the period. This lets you send one consolidated billing invoice instead of a separate invoice for each transaction.
consolidation set of books
A set of books that has average balance processing enabled and that is defined as a consolidation set of books. A consolidation set of books must be used to consolidate average balances using the balances consolidation method.
consumption tax
An indirect tax imposed on transfer of goods and services at each stage of their supply. The difference between output tax (tax collected for revenue earned from the transfer) and the input tax (tax paid on expense paid on the transfer) will be the tax liability to the government. This tax is, in concept, value added tax (VAT).
content set
A report component you build within General Ledger that defines the information in each report and the printing sequence of your reports. For example, you can define a departmental content set that prints one report for each department.
context field value
A response to your context field prompt. Your response is composed of a series of characters and a description. The response and description together provide a unique value for your context prompt, such as 1500, Journal Batch ID, or 2000, Budget Formula Batch ID. The context field value determines which additional descriptive flexfield segments appear.
context response
See context field value.
context segment value
A response to your context-sensitive segment. The response is composed of a series of characters and a description. The response and description together provide a unique value for your context-sensitive segment, such as Redwood Shores, Oracle Corporation Headquarters, or Minneapolis, Merrill Aviation's Hub.
context-sensitive segment
A descriptive flexfield segment that appears in a second pop-up window when you enter a response to your context field prompt. For each context response, you can define multiple context segments, and you control the sequence of the context segments in the second pop-up window. Each context-sensitive segment typically prompts you for one item of information related to your context response.
conversion
A process that converts foreign currency transactions to your functional currency.
See also foreign currency conversion.
corporate exchange rate
An exchange rate you can optionally use to perform foreign currency conversion. The corporate exchange rate is usually a standard market rate determined by senior financial management for use throughout the organization. You define this rate in Oracle General Ledger.
cross-validation rules
Rules that define valid combinations of segment values a user can enter in an account. Cross-validation rules restrict users from entering invalid combinations of account segment values.
Cumulative Translation Adjustment
A balance sheet account included in stockholder's equity in which Multiple Reporting Currencies records net translation adjustments in accordance with FASB 52 (U.S.). You specify the account you want to use for Cumulative Translation Adjustment when you define each set of books in the Set of Books window.
current dimension
The Oracle Financial Analyzer dimension from which you are selecting values. The current dimension is the one you specified in the Dimension box of the Selector window. Choices you make and actions you take in lower-level windows ultimately affect this dimension by selecting values from it to include in a report, graph, or worksheet.
current object
The Oracle Financial Analyzer object upon which the next specified action takes place. Generally, the current object is the one most recently selected. However, if you use a highlight a group of objects, such as data cells in a column, the first object in the group is the current object.
current record indicator
Multi-record blocks often display a current record indicator to the left of each record. A current record indicator is a one character field that when filled in, identifies a record as being currently selected.

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DBA library
If an Oracle Financial Analyzer database object belongs to a DBA library, it means that the object was created by an administrator and cannot be modified by a user.
database table
A basic data storage structure in a relational database management system. A table consists of one or more units of information (rows), each of which contains the same kind of values (columns). Your application's programs and windows access the information in the tables for you.
dependent segment
An account segment in which the available values depend on values entered in a previous segment, called the independent segment. For example, the dependent segment Sub-Account 0001 might mean Bank of Alaska when combined with the independent segment Account 1100, Cash, but the same Sub-Account 0001 might mean Building #3 when combined with Account 1700, Fixed Assets.
descriptive flexfield
A field that your organization can extend to capture extra information not otherwise tracked by Oracle Applications. A descriptive flexfield appears in your window as a single character, unnamed field. Your organization can customize this field to capture additional information unique to your business.
detail budget
A budget whose authority is controlled by another budget.
dimension
An Oracle Financial Analyzer database object used to organize and index the data stored in a variable. Dimensions answer the following questions about data: "What?" "When?" and "Where?" For example, a variable called Units Sold might be associated with the dimensions Product, Month, and District. In this case, Units Sold describes the number of products sold during specific months within specific districts.
dimension label
A text label that displays the name of the Oracle Financial Analyzer dimension associated with an element of a report, graph, or worksheet. For example, the data markers in a graph's legend contain dimension labels that show what data each data marker represents. Dimension labels can be short, meaning they display the object name of a dimension, or user-specified, meaning they display a label that you typed using the Dimension Labels option on the Graph, Report, or Worksheet menus.
dimension values
Elements that make up an Oracle Financial Analyzer dimension. For example, the dimension values of the Product dimension might include Tents, Canoes, Racquets, and Sportswear.
display group
A range of rows or columns in your row set or column set for which you want to control the display in your report. You assign a display group to a display set where you specify whether you want to display or hide your rows or columns.
display set
A Financial Statement Generator report component you build within Multiple Reporting Currencies to control the display of ranges of rows and columns in a report, without reformatting the report or losing header information. You can define a display set that works for reports with specific row and column sets. Alternatively, you can define a generic display set that works for any report.
document sequence number
A number that is manually or automatically assigned to your documents to provide an audit trail. For example, you can choose to sequentially number invoices in Receivables or journal entries in General Ledger. See also voucher number.
dynamic insertion
An Accounting Flexfields feature that allows you to enter and define new combinations of segment values directly in a flexfield pop-up window. The new combination must satisfy any cross-validation rules before it is accepted. Your organization can decide if an Accounting Flexfield supports dynamic insertion. If an account does not support dynamic insertion, you can only enter new combinations of segment values using the Define Accounts window
A feature specific to key flexfields that allows you to enter and define new combinations of segment values directly into a flexfield pop-up window. The new combination must satisfy any cross-validation rules, before your flexfield accepts the new combination. Your organization can decide if a key flexfield supports dynamic insertion. If a flexfield does not support dynamic insertion, you can only enter new combinations of segment values using a combinations form (a form specifically used for creating and maintaining code combinations).

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effective date
The date a transaction affects the balances in the general ledger. This does not have to be the same as the posting date. Also known as the value date.
encumbrance
See encumbrance journal entry.
encumbrance accounting
An Oracle Financials feature you use to create encumbrances automatically for requisitions, purchase orders, and invoices. The budgetary control feature uses encumbrance accounting to reserve funds for budgets. If you enable encumbrance accounting only, you can create encumbrances automatically or manually; however, you cannot check funds online and Oracle Financials does not verify available funds for your transaction. See also budgetary control.
encumbrance journal entry
A journal entry you create online that increases or relieves your encumbrances. Encumbrance entries can include encumbrances of any type. You can enter manual encumbrance entries, define encumbrance allocations, or use Journal Import to import encumbrance entries from other financial systems.
encumbrance type
An encumbrance category that allows you to track your anticipated expenditures according to your purchase approval process and to more accurately control your planned expenditures. Examples of encumbrance types are commitments (requisition encumbrances) and obligations (purchase order encumbrances).
end-of-day balance
The actual balance of a general ledger account at the end of a day. This balance includes all transactions whose effective date precedes or is the same as the calendar day.
exchange rate
A rate that represents the amount of one currency that you can exchange for another at a particular point in time. Oracle Applications use the daily, periodic, and historical exchange rates you maintain to perform foreign currency conversion, revaluation, and translation.
exchange rate type
A specification of the source of an exchange rate. For example, a user exchange rate or a corporate exchange rate. See also corporate exchange rate, spot exchange rate.
Existing Combinations
A feature specific to key flexfields in data entry mode that allows you to enter query criteria in the flexfield to bring up a list of matching predefined combinations of segment values to select from.
export
A utility that enables you to copy data from an Oracle7 table to a file in your current directory. The export utility is part of the Oracle7 Relational Database Management System.
export file
The file the export utility creates in your directory. Export files must have the extension .dmp. It is wise to name the export file so it identifies the data in the table. For example, if you are saving fiscal year 1994 for your Fremont set of books, you might call your export file FY94FR.dmp.

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factor
Data upon which you perform some mathematical operation. Fixed amounts, statistical account balances, account balances, and report rows and columns are all data types you can use in formulas.
FASB 52 (U.S.)
See SFAS 52.
FASB 8 (U.S.)
See SFAS 8.
feeder program
A custom program you write to transfer your transaction information from an original system into Oracle Application interface tables. The type of feeder program you write depends on the environment from which you are importing data.
financial data item
An Oracle Financial Analyzer database object that is made up of either a variable, or a variable and a formula. For example, a financial data item called "Actuals" would be a variable, while a financial data item called "Actuals Variance" would be made up of a variable (Actuals) and a formula that calculates a variance.
field
A position on a window that you use to enter, view, update, or delete information. A field prompt describes each field by telling you what kind of information appears in the field, or alternatively, what kind of information you should enter in the field.
Financial Statement Generator
A powerful and flexible tool you can use to build your own custom reports without programming. You can define reports online with complete control over the rows, columns and contents of your report.
fiscal year
Any yearly accounting period without regard to its relationship to a calendar year.
fixed rate currencies
Currencies with fixed exchange rates. For example, the Euro and currencies of countries in the European Monetary Union (EMU).
FlexBudgeting
A feature that uses budget formulas and statistics to create a flexible budget. For example, a manufacturing organization may want to maintain a flexible budget based on actual units of production to eliminate volume variances during an analysis of actual versus budgeted operating results.
flexfield
An Oracle Applications field made up of segments. Each segment has an assigned name and a set of valid values. Oracle Applications uses flexfields to capture information about your organization. There are two types of flexfields: key flexfields and descriptive flexfields.
folder
A flexible entry and display window in which you can choose the fields you want to see and where each appears in the window. See: Customizing the Presentation of Data.
foreign currency
A currency that you define for your set of books for recording and conducting accounting transactions in a currency other than your functional currency. See also exchange rate, functional currency.
foreign currency conversion
A process that converts a foreign currency journal entry into your functional currency. Multiple Reporting Currencies automatically converts currency whenever you enter a journal entry in a currency other than your functional currency. Multiple Reporting Currencies multiplies the daily exchange rate you define or the exchange rate you enter to convert amounts for your functional currency. You can view the results of foreign currency conversion in the Enter Journals window.
See also foreign exchange gain or loss.
foreign currency exchange gain or loss
The difference in your functional currency between the invoiced amount and the payment amount when applying a receipt to an invoice. A realized gain exists if the receipt amount in your functional currency exceeds the invoice amount; a loss exists if the invoice amount in your functional currency exceeds the amount of the payment. Such gains and losses arise from fluctuations in exchange rates of the receipt currency between the invoice date and the payment date. See also realized gain or loss, unrealized gain or loss.
foreign currency journal entry
A journal entry in which you record transactions in a foreign currency. Multiple Reporting Currencies automatically converts foreign currency amounts into your functional currency using an exchange rate you specify. See also foreign currency, functional currency.
foreign currency revaluation
A process that allows you to revalue assets and liabilities denominated in a foreign currency using a period-end (usually a balance sheet date) exchange rate. Multiple Reporting Currencies automatically revalues your foreign assets and liabilities using the period-end exchange rate you specify. Revaluation gains and losses result from fluctuations in an exchange rate between a transaction date and a balance sheet date. Multiple Reporting Currencies automatically creates a journal entry in accordance with FASB 52 (U.S.) to adjust your unrealized gain/loss account when you run revaluation.
foreign currency translation
A process that allows you to restate your functional currency account balances into a reporting currency. Multiple Reporting Currencies multiplies the average, periodic, or historical rate you define by your functional currency account balances to perform foreign currency translation. Multiple Reporting Currencies translates foreign currency in accordance with FASB 52 (U.S.). Multiple Reporting Currencies also remeasures foreign currencies for companies in highly inflationary economies, in accordance with FASB 8 (U.S.).
form
A logical collection of fields, regions, and blocks that appear on a single screen. Oracle Applications forms look just like the paper forms you use to run your business. All you need to do to enter data is type onto the form. See window.
formula entry
A recurring journal entry that uses formulas to calculate journal entry lines. Instead of specifying amounts, as you would for a standard entry, you use formulas, and Multiple Reporting Currencies calculates the amounts for you. For example, you might use recurring journal entries to do complex allocations or accruals that are computed using statistics or multiple accounts.
function security
An Oracle Applications feature that lets you control user access to certain functions and windows. By default, access to functionality is not restricted; your system administrator customizes each responsibility at your site by including or excluding functions and menus in the Responsibilities window.
functional currency
The principal currency you use to record transactions and maintain accounting data within Multiple Reporting Currencies. The functional currency is usually the currency in which you perform most of your business transactions. You specify the functional currency for each set of books in the Set of Books window.
funding budget
A budget against which accounting transactions are checked for available funds when budgetary control is enabled for your set of books.
funds available
The difference between the amount you are authorized to spend and the amount of your expenditures plus commitments. You can track funds availability at different authority levels using the Online Funds Available inquiry window, or you can create custom reports with the Multiple Reporting Currencies Financial Statement Generator.
funds checking
The process of certifying funds available.
You can check funds when you enter actual, budget, or encumbrance journals.
When you check funds, Oracle Financials compares the amount of your transaction against your funds available and notifies you online whether funds are available for your transaction. Oracle Financials does not reserve funds for your transaction when you check funds.
funds reservation
The process of reserving funds available. You can reserve funds when you enter actual, budget, or encumbrance journals. When you reserve funds, Oracle Financials compares the amount of your transaction against your funds available and notifies you online whether funds are available for your transaction.

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historical exchange rate
A weighted-average rate for transactions that occur at different times. Multiple Reporting Currencies uses historical rates to translate owner's equity accounts in accordance with FASB 52 (U.S.). For companies in highly inflationary economies, Multiple Reporting Currencies uses historical rates to remeasure specific historical account balances, according to FASB 8.
HP Notation
Mathematical logic upon which EasyCalc is based. HP Notation is used by Hewlett-Packard calculators. HP Notation emphasizes straightforward, logical entry of data, and de-emphasizes complicated parenthetical arrangements of data.

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import
A utility that enables you to bring data from an export file into an Oracle7 table. The import utility is part of the Oracle7 Relational Database Management System. This utility is used to restore archived data.
import journal entry
A journal entry from a non-Oracle application, such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, and fixed assets. You use Journal Import to import these journal entries from your feeder systems.
integer data type
Any Oracle Financial Analyzer variables with an integer data type containing whole numbers with values between -2.14 billion and +2.14 billion.
intercompany journal entry
A journal entry that records transactions between affiliates. General Ledger keeps your accounting records in balance for each company by automatically creating offsetting entries to an intercompany account you define.
Item Validation Organization
The organization that contains your master list of items. You define this organization by setting the OE: Item Validation Organization profile option. See also organization.

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journal details tables
Journal details are stored in the database tables GL_JE_BATCHES, GL_JE_HEADERS, and GL_JE_LINES.
journal entry
A debit or credit to a general ledger account. See also manual journal entry.
journal entry category
A category in which Multiple Reporting Currencies describes the purpose or type of journal entry. Standard journal entry categories include accruals, payments, and vouchers.
journal entry source
The source by which Multiple Reporting Currencies identifies and differentiates the origin of journal entries. Standard journal entry sources include payables, payroll, personnel, and receivables.
Journal Import
A General Ledger program that creates journal entries from transaction data stored in the General Ledger GL_INTERFACE table. Journal entries are created and stored in GL_JE_BATCHES, GL_JE_HEADERS, and GL_JE_LINES.
jurisdiction code
An abbreviated address that is specific to a Tax Supplier and more accurate than a simple five digit zip code.

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key flexfield
An Oracle Applications feature you use to build custom fields in which you can enter and display information relating to your business. The General Ledger Accounting Flexfield is a key flexfield.
An intelligent key that uniquely identifies an application entity. Each key flexfield segment has a name you assign, and a set of valid values you specify. Each value has a meaning you also specify. You use this Oracle Applications feature to build custom fields used for entering and displaying information relating to your business. The Accounting Flexfield in your Oracle General Ledger application is an example of a key flexfield used to uniquely identify a general ledger account.

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lamp
A one-word message that Oracle Applications displays in the message line of any window to notify you that a particular feature is available for a particular field.
A single word message that appears on the message line to indicate whether a function such as <Insert> or <List> is available for the current field.
listing
An organized display of Oracle Applications information, similar to a report, but usually showing setup data as opposed to transaction data.

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manual journal entry
A journal entry you enter at a computer terminal. Manual journal entries can include regular, statistical, intercompany and foreign currency entries.
Many-to-Many attribute
In Oracle Financial Analyzer, a relationship between one or more values of one base dimension with one or more values of a second base dimension. For example, if you have a Many-to-Many attribute definition where the first base dimension is Organization and the second base dimension is Line Item, then a single organization can be related to several line items, and a single line item can be related to several organizations.
MassAllocations
A single journal entry formula that allocates revenues and expenses across a group of cost centers, departments, divisions, and so on. For example, you might want to allocate your employee benefit costs to each of your departments based on headcount in each department.
MassBudgeting
A feature that allows you to build a complete budget using simple formulas based on actual results, other budget amounts, and statistics. For example, you may want to draft next year's budget using last year's actual results plus 10 percent or some other growth factor. With MassBudgeting, you can apply one rule to a range of accounts.
master budget
A budget that controls the authority of other budgets.
master-detail relationship
A master-detail relationship is an association between two blocks--a master block and its detail block. When two blocks are linked by a master-detail relationship, the detail block displays only those records that are associated with the current (master) record in the master block, and querying between the two blocks is always coordinated. Master and detail blocks can often appear in the same window or they can each appear in separate windows.
message distribution
A line at the bottom of the toolbar that displays helpful hints, warning messages, and basic data entry errors. On the same line, ZOOM, PICK, EDIT, and HELP lamps appear, to let you know when Zoom, QuickPick, Edit, and online help features are available.
message line
A line on the bottom of a window that displays helpful hints or warning messages when you encounter an error.
meta data
Data you enter in Oracle General Ledger to represent structures in Oracle Financial Analyzer. Meta data consists of the dimensions, segment range sets, hierarchies, financial data items, and financial data sets you define in Oracle General Ledger. When you load financial data from Oracle General Ledger, Oracle Financial Analyzer creates dimensions, dimension values, hierarchies, and variables based on the meta data.
model
A set of interrelated equations for calculating data in Oracle Financial Analyzer.
multi-org
See multiple organizations.
multiple organizations
The ability to define multiple organizations and the relationships among them within a single installation of Oracle Applications. These organizations can be sets of books, business groups, legal entities, operating units, or inventory organizations.
Multiple Reporting Currencies
An Oracle General Ledger feature that allows you to report in your functional currency and in one or more foreign currencies.

N

natural account segment
In Oracle General Ledger, the segment that determines whether an account is an asset, liability, owners' equity, revenue, or expense account. When you define your chart of accounts, you must define one segment as the natural account segment. Each value for this segment is assigned one of the five account types.
nesting
The act of grouping calculations to express the sequence of routines in a formula. Traditional mathematical nesting uses parenthesis and brackets. Multiple Reporting Currencies EasyCalc uses a straightforward and logical nesting method that eliminates the need for parenthetical expressions.
net allocation
Allocation in which you post the net of all allocations to an allocated-out account.

O

obligation
An encumbrance you record when you turn a requisition into a purchase order.
One-to-Many attribute
A relationship in Oracle Financial Analyzer where one or more values of a base dimension are related to a single value of an aggregate dimension. For example, if you have a One-to-Many attribute definition where the base dimension is Organization and the aggregate dimension is Level, each organization can be related to only a single level.
operator
A mathematical symbol you use to indicate the mathematical operation in your calculation.
option group
An option group is a set of option buttons. You can choose only one option button in an option group at a time, and the option group takes on that button's value after you choose it. An option button or option group is also referred to as a radio button or radio group, respectively.
organization
A business unit such as a company, division, or department. Organization can refer to a complete company, or to divisions within a company. Typically, you define an organization or a similar term as part of your account when you implement Oracle Financials. See also business group.

P

parameter
See report parameter.
parent request
A concurrent request that submits other concurrent requests (child requests). For example, a report set is a parent request that submits reports and/or programs (child requests).
parent segment value
An account segment value that references a number of other segment values, called child segment values. Multiple Reporting Currencies uses parent segment values for creating summary accounts, for reporting on summary balances, and in MassAllocations and MassBudgeting. You can create parent segment values for independent segments, but not for dependent segments.
Oracle Financial Analyzer uses parent and child segment values to create hierarchies.
See also child segment value.
period type
You use accounting period types to define your accounting calendar.
period-average exchange rate
See average exchange rate.
period average-to-date
The average of the end-of-day balances for a related range of days within a period.
period-end exchange rate
The daily exchange rate on the last day of an accounting period. Multiple Reporting Currencies automatically translates asset and liability account balances using period-end rates, in accordance with FASB 52 (U.S.). When you run revaluation for a period, Multiple Reporting Currencies automatically uses the inverse of your period-end rate to revalue your foreign currency denominated assets and liabilities in accordance with FASB 52 (U.S.). For companies in highly inflationary economies, Multiple Reporting Currencies uses period-end rates to remeasure the balances of asset and liability accounts according to FASB 8 (U.S.).
personal library
If an Oracle Financial Analyzer database object belongs to a personal library, it means that the object was created by the workstation user and can be modified.
planned purchase order
A type of purchase order you issue before you order delivery of goods and services for specific dates and locations. You usually enter a planned purchase order to specify items you want to order and when you want the items delivered. You later enter a shipment release against the planned purchase order to order the items.
pop-up window
An additional window that appears on an Oracle Applications form when your cursor enters a particular field.
posting date
The date a journal transaction is actually posted to the general ledger.
poplist
A poplist lets you choose a single value from a predefined list. To choose a value, press your left mouse button while on the poplist icon to display the list of choices, then drag your mouse through the list to the desired value. Release your mouse button to choose the value you highlight and display it in the poplist field. A poplist is also sometimes known as a list.
profile option
A set of changeable options that affect the way your applications run. In general, profile options can be set at one or more of the following levels: site, application, responsibility, and user. Refer to the Profile Option appendix in the Oracle General Ledger User's Guide for more information.
project segment
To set up your account, you define the individual segments of your general ledger account code. You can define a project segment to enter your project identifier. You define all key attributes of the segment, including field length, position of the segment within your account, prompt, type of characters (numeric or alphanumeric), and default value (optional).
project segment value
The identifier (project name, number, or code) you use to designate each project. After you define a project segment in your account, you set up a project in Multiple Reporting Currencies by simply defining a project segment value. For example, you could define a project name (ALPHA), a project number (583), or a project code (D890).
proprietary account
An account segment value (such as 3500) assigned one of the five proprietary account types. The five types include Asset, Liability, Owner's Equity, Revenue, and Expense.
Proprietary account
An account that contains a proprietary account.
proprietary account type
Any of the five account types: Asset, Liability, Owner's Equity, Revenue, and Expense.
proprietary funds
A fund type that uses accounting and reporting techniques similar to commercial enterprises. Examples of proprietary funds include internal service funds, such as a central motor pool or central public works facility, and enterprise funds.
purchase order (PO)
A document used to buy and request delivery of goods or services from a supplier.
purchase order encumbrance
A transaction representing a legally binding purchase. Purchasing subtracts purchase order encumbrances from funds available when you approve a purchase order. If you cancel a purchase order, Purchasing creates appropriate reversing encumbrances entries in your general ledger. Also known as obligation, encumbrance or lien.

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quarter average-to-date
The average of the end-of-day balances for a related range of days within a quarter.
query
A search for applications information that you initiate using an Oracle Applications window.

R

realized gain or loss
The actual gain or loss in value that results from holding an asset or liability over time. Realized gains and losses are shown separately on the Income Statement. See also unrealized gain or loss, foreign currency exchange gain or loss.
record
A record is one occurrence of data stored in all the fields of a block. A record is also referred to as a row or a transaction, since one record corresponds to one row of data in a database table or one database transaction.
recurring formula
See recurring journal entry.
recurring journal entry
A journal entry you define once; then, at your request, General Ledger repeats the journal entry for you each accounting period. You use recurring journal entries to define automatic consolidating and eliminating entries. Also known as recurring formula.
region
A collection of logically-related fields set apart from other fields by a dashed line that spans a block. Regions help to organize a block so that it is easier to understand.
report
An organized display of Oracle Applications information. A report can be viewed online or sent to a printer. The content of information in a report can range from a summary to a complete listing of values.
A combination of at least a row set and column set, and optionally a content set, display group, row order, and runtime options, such as currency and override segment name, that you can define and name. When you request financial statements, you can enter this name, and Multiple Reporting Currencies automatically enters the report components and runtime options for you. You simply specify the accounting period. Multiple Reporting Currencies automatically enters the rest.
report component
An element of a Financial Statement Generator report that defines the format and content of your report. Report components include row sets, column sets, content sets, row orders, and display sets. You can group report components together in different ways to create custom reports.
report headings
A descriptive section found at the top of each report giving general information about the contents of the report.
report option
See report parameter.
report parameter
Options that let you sort, format, select, and summarize the information in your reports.
report security group
A feature that helps your system administrator control your access to reports and programs. Your system administrator defines a report security group which consists of a group of reports and/or programs and assigns a report security group to each responsibility that has access to run reports using Standard Report Submission. When you submit reports using Standard Report Submission, you can only choose from those reports and programs in the report security group assigned to your responsibility.
report set
A group of reports that you submit at the same time to run as one transaction. A report set allows you to submit the same set of reports regularly without having to specify each report individually. For example, you can define a report set that prints all of your regular month-end management reports.
reporting currency
The currency you use for financial reporting. If your reporting currency is not the same as your functional currency, you can use foreign currency translation to restate your account balances in your reporting currency.
reporting hierarchies
Summary relationships within an account segment that let you group detailed values of that segment to prepare summary reports. You define summary (parent) values that reference the detailed (children) values of that segment.
requisition encumbrance
A transaction representing an intent to purchase goods and services as indicated by the completion and approval of a requisition. Purchasing subtracts requisition encumbrances from funds available when you reserve funds for a requisition. If you cancel a requisition, Purchasing creates appropriate reversing entries in your general ledger. Also known as commitment, pre-encumbrance or pre-lien.
Reserve for Encumbrance
A portion of fund balance you use to record anticipated expenditures. In Oracle Financials, you define your Reserve for Encumbrance account when you define your set of books. Oracle Financials uses your Reserve for Encumbrance account to create offsets for unbalanced encumbrance entries you create in Purchasing, Payables, and General Ledger.
Reserve for Encumbrance account
The account you use to record your encumbrance liability. You define a Reserve for Encumbrance account when you define your set of books. When you create encumbrances automatically in Purchasing or Multiple Reporting Currencies, General Ledger automatically creates a balancing entry to your Reserve for Encumbrance account as you post your encumbrance journal entries. General Ledger overwrites the balancing segment for your Reserve for Encumbrance account, so you automatically create the reserve for encumbrance journal entry to the correct company.
responsibility
A level of authority in an application. Each responsibility lets you access a specific set of Oracle Applications windows, menus, reports, and data to fulfill your role in an organization. Several users can share the same responsibility, and a single user can have multiple responsibilities.
A level of authority within Multiple Reporting Currencies. Each responsibility provides a user with access to a menu and a set of books. You can assign one or more responsibilities to each user. Responsibilities let you control security in Multiple Reporting Currencies.
responsibility report
A financial statement containing information organized by management responsibility. For example, a responsibility report for a cost center contains information for that specific cost center, a responsibility report for a division manager contains information for all organizational units within that division, and so on. A manager typically receives reports for the organizational unit(s) (such as cost center, department, division, group, and so on) for which he or she is responsible.
revaluation
See foreign currency revaluation.
revaluation gain/loss account
An income statement account you specify in which Multiple Reporting Currencies records net revaluation gains and losses, in accordance with FASB 52 (U.S.). You specify the account you want to use for unrealized revaluation gains and losses in the Run Revaluation window. You can change your revaluation gain/loss account as often as you want. When you run revaluation, Multiple Reporting Currencies creates a batch of revaluation journal entries that adjust your revaluation gain/loss account. Multiple Reporting Currencies also marks the journal entries for reversal in the next accounting period.
revaluation journal entry
A journal entry that is automatically created when you run revaluation for a range of accounts denominated in a foreign currency. Multiple Reporting Currencies creates a batch of revaluation journal entries when the exchange rate used for conversion on your transaction date differs from the exchange rate on your balance sheet date. Multiple Reporting Currencies creates a journal entry to adjust an income statement gain and loss account for exchange rate fluctuations, in accordance with FASB 52 (U.S.).
revaluation status report
A report that summarizes the results of your revaluation. Multiple Reporting Currencies automatically generates this report whenever you revalue foreign asset and liability account balances for an accounting period in your calendar. You can review this report to identify accounts that were revalued in Multiple Reporting Currencies and journal batches and entries that were created because of the revaluation.
reversing journal entry
A journal entry General Ledger creates by reversing an existing journal entry. You can reverse any journal entry and post it to any open accounting period.
rollup group
A collection of parent segment values for a given segment. You use rollup groups to define summary accounts based on parents in the group. You can use letters as well as numbers to name your rollup groups.
root node
A parent segment value in Oracle General Ledger that is the topmost node of a hierarchy. When you define a hierarchy using the Hierarchy window, you specify a root node for each segment. Oracle Financial Analyzer creates a hierarchy by starting at the root node and drilling down through all of the parent and child segment values. See also parent segment value.
root window
The root window displays the main menu bar and tool bar for every session of Oracle Applications. In Microsoft Windows, the root window is titled "Oracle Applications" and contains all the Oracle Applications windows you run. In the Motif environment, the root window is titled "Toolbar" because it displays just the toolbar and main menu bar.
row
One occurrence of the information displayed in the fields of a block. A block may show only one row of information at a time, or it may display several rows of information at once, depending on its layout. The term "row" is synonymous with the term "record".
row order
A report component that you use to modify the order of detail rows and account segments in your report. You can rank your rows in ascending or descending order based on the amounts in a particular column and/or by sorting your account segments either by segment value or segment value description. You also specify display options, depending on the row ranking method you choose. For example, if you want to review Total Sales in descending order by product, you can rank your rows in descending order by the Total Sales column and rearrange your segments so that product appears first on your report.
row set
A Financial Statement Generator report component that you build within Multiple Reporting Currencies by defining all of the lines in your report. For each row, you control the format and content, including line descriptions, indentations, spacing, page breaks, calculations, units of measure, precision and so on. A typical row set includes row labels, accounts and calculation rows for totals. For example, you might define a standard income statement row set or a standard balance sheet row set.
rule numbers
A sequential step in a calculation. You use rule numbers to specify the order in which you want Multiple Reporting Currencies to process the factors you use in your budget and actual formulas.

S

segments
The building blocks of your chart of accounts in Oracle General Ledger. Each account is comprised of multiple segments. Users choose which segments will make up their accounts; commonly-used segments include company, cost center, and product.
segment values
The possible values for each segment of the account. For example, the Cost Center segment could have the values 100, which might represent Finance, and 200, which might represent Marketing.
selection tools
A set of tools in Oracle Financial Analyzer that provide shortcut methods for selecting the values that you want to work with in a report, graph, or worksheet.
sales tax
A tax collected by a tax authority on purchases of goods and services. The supplier of the good or service collects sales taxes from its customers (tax is usually included in the invoice amount) and remits them to a tax authority. Tax is usually charged as a percentage of the price of the good or service. The percentage rate usually varies by authority and sometimes by category of product. Sales taxes are expenses to the buyer of goods and services.
sales tax structure
The collection of taxing bodies that you will use to determine your tax authority. 'State.County.City' is an example of a Sales Tax Structure. Multiple Reporting Currencies adds together the tax rates for all of these components to determine a customer's total tax liability for
scrollable region
A region whose contents are not entirely visible in a window. A scrollable region contains a horizontal or vertical scroll bar so that you can scroll horizontally or vertically to view additional fields hidden in the region.
segment
A single sub-field within a flexfield. You define the structure and meaning of individual segments when customizing a flexfield.
set of books
A financial reporting entity that uses a particular chart of accounts, functional currency and accounting calendar. You must define at least one set of books for each business location.
SFAS 52 (U.S.)
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards number 52, issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which dictates accounting and reporting standards for translating foreign currency transactions in the United States. Multiple Reporting Currencies translates and revaluates such transactions according to SFAS 52 (U.S.) standards. Usually, SFAS 52 (U.S.) mandates the use of a period-end exchange rate to translate asset and liability accounts, and an average exchange rate to translate revenue and expense accounts. Foreign currency denominated assets and liabilities are revalued using a period-end rate on each balance sheet date, to reflect the period-end exchange rate in accordance with SFAS 52 (U.S.). You specify the account used for revaluation gains and losses in the Run Revaluation window. You maintain the rates used for translation and revaluation in the Define Period Rates and Define Historical Rates forms. SFAS 52 (U.S.) also mandates that you post any out-of-balance amounts arising from translation to a Cumulative Translation Adjustment account included in stockholders equity. You define the Cumulative Translation Adjustment account in the Set of Books window.
SFAS 8 (U.S.)
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards number 8, issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which mandates that you use a historical exchange rate for all accounts based on past purchase exchanges, and that you use a current exchange rate for all accounts based on current purchase, current sale, and future exchanges. Multiple Reporting Currencies remeasures specific account balances using historical rates you specify for companies in highly inflationary economies according to the standards of SFAS 8 (U.S.). SFAS 8 (U.S.) also mandates that you record any out-of-balance amounts arising from translation to an income/expense account included in your income statement.
shortdecimal data type
Oracle Financial Analyzer variables with a shortdecimal data type contain decimal numbers with up to 7 significant digits.
shortinteger data type
Oracle Financial Analyzer variables with a shortinteger data type contain whole numbers with values between -32768 and +32768.
shorthand flexfield entry
A quick way to enter key flexfield data using shorthand aliases (names) that represent valid flexfield combinations or patterns of valid segment values. Your organization can specify flexfields that will use shorthand flexfield entry and define shorthand aliases for these flexfields that represent complete or partial sets of key flexfield segment values.
shorthand window
A single-segment customizable field that appears in a pop-up window when you enter a key flexfield. The shorthand flexfield pop-up window only appears if you enable shorthand entry for that particular key flexfield.
sign-on
An Oracle Applications username and password that allows you to gain access to Oracle Applications. Each sign-on is assigned one or more responsibilities.
skeleton entry
A recurring journal entry the amounts of which change each accounting period. You simply define a recurring journal entry without amounts, then enter the appropriate amounts each accounting period. For example, you might define a skeleton entry to record depreciation in the same accounts every month, but with different amounts due to additions and retirements.
spot exchange rate
A daily exchange rate you use to perform foreign currency conversions. The spot exchange rate is usually a quoted market rate that applies to the immediate delivery of one currency for another.
spreadsheet interface
A program that uploads your actual or budget data from a spreadsheet into Multiple Reporting Currencies. Letters are based on the dunning levels of past due debit items. This method lets you send dunning letters based on the number of days since the last letter was sent, rather than the number of days items are past due. For each dunning letter, you specify the minimum number of days that must pass before Receivables can increment an item's dunning level and include this item in the next letter that you send.
standard balance
The usual and customary period-to-date, quarter-to-date, or year-to-date balance for an account. The standard balance is the sum of an account's opening balance, plus all activity for a specified period, quarter, or year. Unlike an average balance, no additional computations are needed to arrive at the standard balance.
standard entry
A recurring journal entry whose amount is the same each accounting period. For example, you might define a standard entry for fixed accruals, such as rent, interest, and audit fees.
Standard Request Submission
A standard interface in Oracle Applications in which you run and monitor your application's reports and other processes.
STAT
The statistical currency Oracle General Ledger uses for maintaining statistical balances. If you enter a statistical transaction using the STAT currency, Oracle General Ledger will not convert your transaction amounts.
statistical journal entry
A journal entry in which you enter nonfinancial information such as headcount, production units, and sales units.
statistics
Accounting information (other than currency amounts) you use to manage your business operations. With Multiple Reporting Currencies, you can maintain budget and actual statistics and use these statistics with budget rules and formulas.
status line
A status line appearing below the message line of a root window that displays status information about the current window or field. A status line can contain the following: ^ or v symbols indicate previous records before or additional records following the current record in the current block; Enter Query indicates that the current block is in Enter Query mode, so you can specify search criteria for a query; Count indicates how many records were retrieved or displayed by a query (this number increases with each new record you access but does not decrease when you return to a prior record); the <Insert> indicator or lamp informs you that the current window is in insert character mode; and the <List> lamp appears when a list of values is available for the current field.
step-down allocation
An allocation upon which you run another allocation. For example, you might allocate parent company overhead to operating companies based on revenues. You can then use a step-down allocation to allocate overhead to cost centers within the operating companies based on headcount.
structure
A structure is a specific combination of segments for a key flexfield. If you add or remove segments, or rearrange the order of segments in a key flexfield, you get a different structure.
summary account
An account whose balance represents the sum of other account balances. You can use summary accounts for faster reporting and inquiry as well as in formulas and allocations.

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tablespace
The area in which an Oracle database is divided to hold tables.
tax authority
A governmental entity that collects taxes on goods and services purchased by a customer from a supplier. In some countries, there are many authorities (e.g. state, local and federal governments in the US), while in others there may be only one. Each authority may charge a different tax rate. Within Multiple Reporting Currencies, tax authority consists of all components of your tax structure. For example: California.San Mateo.Redwood Shores for State.County.City. Multiple Reporting Currencies adds together the tax rates for all of these locations to determine a customer's total tax liability for an .
tax codes
Codes to which you assign sales tax or value-added tax rates. Oracle Receivables lets you choose state codes as the tax code when you define sales tax rates for the United States. (Receivables QuickCode)
tax engine
A collection of programs, user defined system parameters, and hierarchical flows used by Multiple Reporting Currencies to calculate tax.
tax exempt
A customer, business purpose, or item to which tax charges do not apply.
Tax Identification Number
In the United States, the number used to identify 1099 suppliers. If a 1099 supplier is an individual, the Tax Identification Number is the supplier's social security number. If a 1099 supplier is a corporation, the Tax Identification Number is also known as the Federal Identification Number.
tax location
A specific tax location within your tax authority. For example 'Redwood Shores' is a tax location in the Tax Authority California.San Mateo.Redwood Shores.
tax type
A feature you use to indicate the type of tax charged by a tax authority when you define a tax name. Multiple Reporting Currencies uses the tax type during invoice entry to determine the financial impact of the tax. When you enter a tax of type Sales, Multiple Reporting Currencies creates a separate invoice distribution line for the tax amount. When you enter a tax of type Use, Multiple Reporting Currencies does not create the invoice distribution line.
template
A pattern that Multiple Reporting Currencies uses to create and maintain summary accounts. For each template you specify, Multiple Reporting Currencies automatically creates the appropriate summary accounts.
Time dimension
An Oracle Financial Analyzer dimension whose values represent time periods. A time period can be a month, quarter, or year. The length of the Time dimension's values is determined by the Width option on the Maintain Dimension window.
toolbar
The toolbar is a collection of iconic buttons that each perform a specific action when you choose it. Each toolbar button replicates a commonly-used menu item. Depending on the context of the current field or window, a toolbar button can be enabled or disabled. You can display a hint for an enabled toolbar button on the message line by holding your mouse steadily over the button. The toolbar generally appears below the main menu bar in the root window.
translation
See revaluation.
foreign currency translation.

U

unrealized gain or loss
The measured change in value of an asset or liability over time. Payables provides a report (the Unrealized Gain and Loss Report) that you can submit from the standard report submission form at any time to review your unrealized gains and losses. See also realized gain or loss.
use tax
A tax that you pay directly to a tax authority instead of to the supplier. Suppliers do not include use tax on their invoices. You sometimes owe use tax for goods or services you purchased outside of, but consumed (used) within the territory of a tax authority. Use taxes are liabilities to the buyer of goods and services. You can define a tax name for use taxes. When you enter a use tax name on an invoice, Multiple Reporting Currencies does not create an invoice distribution or general ledger journal entry for the tax.
user profile
A set of changeable options that affect the way your applications run. You can change the value of a user profile option at any time.
See profile option.

V

value
Data you enter in a parameter. A value can be a date, a name, or a code, depending on the parameter.
value set
A group of values and related attributes you assign to an account segment or to a descriptive flexfield segment. Values in each value set have the same maximum length, validation type, alphanumeric option, and so on.
value added tax (VAT)
A tax on the supply of goods and services paid for by the consumer, but collected at each stage of the production and distribution chain. The collection and payment of value added tax amounts is usually reported to tax authorities on a quarterly basis and is not included in the revenue or expense of a company. With Multiple Reporting Currencies, you control the tax names on which you report and the reference information you want to record. You can also request period-to-date value added tax reports.
variable
An Oracle Financial Analyzer database object that holds raw data. Data can be numerical, such as sales or expense data, or textual, such as descriptive labels for products.
variable text
Variable text is used when dialog boxes or their components are unlabeled or have labels that change dynamically based on their current context. The wording of variable text does not exactly match what you see on your screen.
voucher number
A number used as a record of a business transaction. A voucher number may be used to review invoice information, in which case it serves as a unique reference to a single invoice.

W

weighted-average exchange rate
An exchange rate that Multiple Reporting Currencies automatically calculates by multiplying journal amounts for an account by the translation rate that applies to each journal amount. You choose whether the rate that applies to each journal amount is based on the inverse of the daily conversation rate or on an exception rate you enter manually. Multiple Reporting Currencies uses the weighted-average rate, instead of the period-end, average, or historical rates, to translate balances for accounts assigned a weighted-average rate type.
window
A box around a set of related information on your screen. Many windows can appear on your screen simultaneously and can overlap or appear adjacent to each other. Windows can also appear embedded in other windows. You can move a window to a different location on your screen.
window title
A window title at the top of each window indicates the name of the window, and occasionally, context information pertinent to the content of the window. The context information, contained in parenthesis, can include the organization, set of books, or business group that the window contents is associated with.

X

Y

year average-to-date
The average of the end-of-day balances for a related range of days within a year.

Z

Zoom
A forms feature that is obsolete in GUI versions of Oracle Applications.

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