Client Extensions (Oracle Cost Management)


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Client Extensions

Oracle Cost Management provides flexible cost processing. However, many companies have business requirements that are unique to their company or country. To address these unique requirements, Cost Management provides subprograms which enable you to extend the functionality of the product to implement and automate company-specific business rules. In other words, subprograms provide extensibility by letting you tailor the P/L SQL language to suit your needs. For this reason these subprograms are commonly known as client extensions.

Table 3 - 3 lists the Cost Management client extensions and their predefined template function files. The template function files are stored in the Cost Management admin/sql directory.

Standard Cost Client Extensions Package Specification File Package Body File

Accounting Entry Extension CSTSCHKS.pls CSTSCHKB.pls

Account Generation Extension CSTSCHKS.pls CSTSCHKB.pls

Average Cost Client Extensions Package Specification File Package Body File

Transaction Cost Extension CSTACHKS.pls CSTACHKB.pls

Accounting Entry Extension CSTACHKS.pls CSTACHKB.pls

Account Generation Extension CSTACHKS.pls CSTACHKB.pls

Table 3 - 3. Client Extensions (Page 1 of 1)

Standard Cost Client Extensions	Package Specification File	Package Body File
Accounting Entry Extension	CSTSCHKS.pls	CSTSCHKB.pls
Account Generation Extension	CSTSCHKS.pls	CSTSCHKB.pls
Average Cost Client Extensions	Package Specification File	Package Body File
Transaction Cost Extension	CSTACHKS.pls	CSTACHKB.pls
Accounting Entry Extension	CSTACHKS.pls	CSTACHKB.pls
Account Generation Extension	CSTACHKS.pls	CSTACHKB.pls
Table 3 - 3. Client Extensions (Page 1 of 1)

Client extensions and functions can be used in either average costing organizations or both average and standard costing organizations as indicated below:

To define company specific rules using client extensions, you design and write these rules using PL/SQL functions; these functions are called during specific points in the normal processing flow of Cost Management.

These functions that you write are extensions rather than customizations because they are supported features within the product and are easily upgradable between releases of the product. Customizations are changes made to the base product which are not supported and are not easily upgraded.

Attention: You are responsible for the support and upgrade of the logic within the functions that you write, which may be impacted by changes between releases of the Oracle Applications.

Client Extensions

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