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The Account Generator in Oracle Assets utilizes Oracle Workflow. You can view and customize Account Generator processes through the Oracle Workflow Builder. See: Oracle Workflow Guide.

Oracle Assets uses the Account Generator to generate accounting flexfield combinations for journal entries. The Account Generator allows you to designate a specific source for each segment in the account for which Oracle Assets creates a journal entry. The Account Generator gives you the flexibility to create journal entries according to your requirements. You can specify to what detail to create journal entries, and you can specify the detail level for each book and account type.

For example, when creating journal entries for asset cost, you can specify that the cost center segment comes from the depreciation expense account of the distribution line you entered for the asset in the Assignments window. Or, you can specify that the cost center comes from the default value you defined for the depreciation book.

Oracle Assets sets up the Account Generator to create journal entries using default assignments when you set up a depreciation book.

By default, Oracle Assets creates journal entries without cost center level detail, except for depreciation expense. Using the default assignments, it creates journal entries using the balancing segment from the distribution line in the Assignments window and the account segment from the asset category or book, depending on the account type. The Account Generator gets the other segments from the default segment values you entered for the book. You can modify the default Account Generator process so that Oracle Assets creates journal entries to a different detail level.

Suggestion: You only need to read this essay and modify the default process if you want to use the Account Generator to post to a different level of detail.

Attention: Notice that the default process is different for the depreciation expense account. Using the default process, Oracle Assets creates full detail journal entries for depreciation expense. Oracle Assets creates journal entries for depreciation expense using all the segments from the distribution line you enter for the asset in the Assignments window.

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