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4-4-5 calendar

A depreciation calendar with 12 uneven periods: four cycles of a four-week period, followed by a four-week period, followed by a five-week period. Depreciation is usually divided by days for a 4-4-5 calendar. Since a 4-4-5 calendar has 364 days per year, it has different start and end dates for the fiscal year each year.

24-hour format

A time format that uses a 24 hour clock instead of am and pm, so that 3:30 would be 3:30 am, 16:15 would be 4:15 pm, 19:42 would be 7:42 pm, etc.

A

Account Generator

A feature that uses Oracle Workflow to provide various Oracle Applications with the ability to construct Accounting Flexfield combinations automatically using custom construction criteria. You define a group of steps that determine how to fill in your Accounting Flexfield segments. You can define additional processes and/or modify the default process(es), depending on the application. See also activity, function, item type, lookup type, node, process, protection level, result type, transition, Workflow Engine

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.

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.

accounting period

accumulated depreciation

The total depreciation taken for an asset since it was placed in service. Also known as life-to-date depreciation and depreciation reserve.

ACE

See adjusted current earnings.

ACE book

A tax book for Adjusted Current Earnings ("ACE") tax calculations.

activity

An Oracle Workflow unit of work performed during a business process. See also activity attribute, function activity

activity attribute

A parameter for an Oracle Workflow function activity that controls how the function activity operates. You define an activity attribute by displaying the activity's Attributes properties page in the Activities window of Oracle Workflow Builder. You assign a value to an activity attribute by displaying the activity node's Attribute Values properties page in the Process window.

adjusted current earnings ("ACE")

A set of depreciation rules defined by United States tax law. Oracle Assets supports the Adjusted Current Earnings tax rules.

alert

An entity you define that checks your database for a specific condition and sends or prints messages based on the information found in your database.

archive

To archive a fiscal year is to copy the depreciation expense and adjustment transaction data for that year to a storage device.

archive table

Oracle Assets copies depreciation expense and adjustment transaction data for a fiscal year to temporary tables called archive tables.

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.

asset

See fixed asset.

asset account

A general ledger account to which you charge the cost of an asset when you purchase it. You must define an account as an asset account.

Asset Key Flexfield

Oracle Assets lets you define additional ways to sort and categorize your assets without any financial impact. You use your Asset Key Flexfield to define how you want to keep the information.

attribute

See activity attribute, item type attribute

automatic asset numbering

A feature that automatically numbers your assets if you do not enter an asset number.

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.

B

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.

basis reduction rate

Each Investment Tax Credit Rate has a basis reduction rate associated with it. Oracle Assets applies the basis reduction rate to the ITC basis to determine the amount by which it will reduce the depreciable basis. Oracle Assets displays the basis reduction rate with its corresponding investment tax credit rate in the Assign Investment Tax Credit form so you can easily see whether the rate you choose will reduce the depreciable basis of the asset.

book

See depreciation book.

budget book

A book that you use to track planned capital expenditures.

budget interface table

The interface table from which Oracle Assets uploads budget information.

budget upload

The process by which Oracle Assets loads budget information from the Budget Interface table into the Budget worksheet. You can use the Budget Upload process to transfer budget information from a feeder system, such as a spreadsheet, to Oracle Assets.

budget worksheet

Oracle Assets holds your budget in the budget worksheet so that you can review and change it before you load it into your budget book. Your budget must be in a budget book before you can run depreciation projections or reports.

C

cache

A temporary storage area for holding information during processing.

calculated depreciation method

A depreciation method that uses the straight-line method to calculate depreciation based on the asset life and the recoverable cost.

capital gain threshold

The minimum time you must hold an asset for Oracle Assets to report it as a capital gain when you retire it. If you hold an asset for at least as long as the capital gain threshold, Oracle Assets reports it as a capital gain when you retire it. If you hold the asset for less than the threshold, Oracle Assets reports it as an ordinary income from the retirement.

capitalized assets

Capitalized assets are assets that you depreciate (spread the cost expense over time). The Asset Type for these assets is "Capitalized".

capital project

A project in which you build one or more depreciable fixed assets.

category flexfield

Oracle Assets lets you group your assets and define what descriptive and financial information you want to keep about your asset categories. You use your Category Flexfield to define how you want to keep the information.

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.

CIP assets

See construction-in-process assets.

clearing account

An account used to ensure that both sides of an accounting transaction are recorded. For example, when you purchase an asset, your payables group creates a journal entry to the asset clearing account. When your fixed assets group records the asset, they create another journal entry to the asset clearing account to balance the entry from the payables group.

construction-in-process (CIP) asset

A depreciable fixed asset you plan to build during a capital project. The costs associated with building CIP assets are referred to as CIP costs.

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.

construction-in-process (CIP) assets

You construct CIP assets over a period of time rather than buying a finished asset. Oracle Assets lets you create, maintain, and add to your CIP assets as you spend money for material and labor to construct them. When you finish the assets and place them in service (capitalize them), Oracle Assets begins depreciating them.

control book

A tax book, used for mass depreciation adjustments, that holds the minimum accumulated depreciation for each asset.

Corporate book

A depreciation book that you use to track financial information for your balance sheet.

credit invoice

An invoice you receive from a supplier representing a credit amount that the supplier owes to you. A credit invoice can represent a quantity credit or a price reduction.

You can create a mass addition line from a credit invoice and apply it to an asset.

D

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.

date placed in service

The calendar date on which you start using an asset.

deferred depreciation

The difference between the depreciation expense for an asset in a tax book and its depreciation expense in the associated corporate book.

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.

depreciable basis

The amount of your asset that is subject to depreciation, generally the cost minus the salvage value. Also known as recoverable cost.

depreciate

To depreciate an asset is to spread its cost over the time you use it. You charge depreciation expense for the asset each period. The total depreciation taken for an asset is stored in the accumulated depreciation account.

depreciation book

A book to store financial information for a group of assets. A depreciation book can be corporate, tax, or budget. Also known as book.

depreciation calendar

The depreciation calendar determines the number of accounting periods in a fiscal year. It also determines, with the divide depreciation flag, what fraction of the annual depreciation amount to take each period. You must specify a depreciation calendar for each book.

depreciation projection

The expected depreciation expense for specified future periods.

depreciation reserve

See accumulated depreciation.

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.

distribution line

Information such as employee, general ledger depreciation expense account, and location to which you have assigned an asset. You can create any number of distribution lines for each asset. Oracle Assets uses distribution lines to allocate depreciation expense and to produce your Property Tax and Responsibility Reports.

E

expensed asset

An asset that you do not depreciate, but charge the entire cost in a single period. Oracle Assets does not depreciate an expensed asset, or create any journal entries for it. You can, however, use Oracle Assets to track expensed assets. The Asset Type for these assets is "Expensed".

expensed item

Items that do NOT depreciate; the entire cost is charged in a single period to an expense account. Oracle Assets tracks expensed items, but does not create journal entries for them.

F

feeder system

Another system from which you can pass information into Oracle Assets. For example, you can pass budget or production information from a spreadsheet into Oracle Assets.

fiscal year

Any yearly accounting period without regard to its relationship to a calendar year.

fixed asset

An item owned by your business and used for operations. Fixed assets generally have a life of more than one year, are acquired for use in the operation of the business, and are not intended for resale to customers. Assets differ from inventory items since you use them rather than sell them.

fixed assets unit

A measure for the number of asset parts tracked in Oracle Assets. You can assign one or more units to a distribution line.

flat-rate depreciation method

A depreciation method that calculates the depreciation for an asset based on a fixed rate each year. This method uses a constant rate which Oracle Assets multiplies by an asset's recoverable cost or net book value as of the beginning of each fiscal year.

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.

flexfield segment

One of the sections of your key flexfield, separated from the other sections by a symbol that you define (such as -,/, or \). Each segment typically represents an element of your business, such as cost center, product, or account.

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 to record and conduct accounting transactions in a currency other than your functional currency.

function

A PL/SQL stored procedure referenced by an Oracle Workflow function activity that can enforce business rules, perform automated tasks within an application, or retrieve application information. The stored procedure accepts standard arguments and returns a completion result. See also function activity.

function activity

An automated Oracle Workflow unit of work that is defined by a PL/SQL stored procedure. See also function.

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 Oracle Assets. 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.

G

gain / loss

The profit or loss resulting from the retirement of an asset.

general ledger

The accounting system that tracks the journal entries that affect each account.

H

I

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.

intangible asset

A long term asset with no physical substance, such as a patent, copyright, trademark, leasehold, and formula. You can depreciate intangible assets using Oracle Assets.

intercompany account

A general ledger account that you define in an Accounting Flexfield to balance intercompany transactions. You can define multiple intercompany accounts for use with different types of accounts payable journal entries.

investment tax credit (ITC)

A United Sates tax credit that is based on asset cost.

invoice

A document you receive from a supplier that lists amounts owed to the supplier for purchased goods or services. In Payables, you create an invoice online using the information your supplier provides on the document. Payments, inquiries, adjustments and any other transactions relating to a supplier's invoice are based upon the invoice information you enter.

invoice date

The date that appears on a customer invoice. This date is used to calculate the invoice due date, according to the customer's payment terms.

invoice number

A number or combination of numbers and characters that uniquely identifies an invoice within your system. Usually generated automatically by your receivables system to avoid assigning duplicate numbers.

ITC

See investment tax credit.

ITC amount

The investment tax credit allowed on an asset. The ITC amount is based on a percentage of the asset cost. When you change an asset's cost in the accounting period you enter it, Oracle Assets automatically recalculates the ITC amount.

ITC basis

The maximum cost that Oracle Assets can use to calculate an investment tax credit amount for your asset. If you enabled ITC ceilings for the asset category you assigned to an asset, the ITC basis is the lesser of the asset's original cost or the ITC ceiling.

ITC ceiling

A limit on the maximum cost that Oracle Assets can use to calculate investment tax credit for an asset. You can use different ceilings depending on the asset's date placed in service.

ITC rate

A rate used to calculate the investment tax credit amount. This percentage varies according to the expected life of the asset and the tax year.

ITC recapture

If you retire an asset before the end of its useful life, Oracle Assets automatically calculates what fraction of the original investment tax credit must be repaid to the government. This amount is called the investment tax credit recapture.

item

Anything you buy, sell, or handle in your business. An item may be a tangible item in your warehouse, such as a wrench or tractor, or an intangible item, such as a service.

item type

A term used by Oracle Workflow to refer to a grouping of all items of a particular category that share the same set of item attributes, used as a high level grouping for processes. For example, each Account Generator item type (e.g. FA Account Generator) contains a group of processes for determining how an Accounting Flexfield code combination is created. See also item type attribute

item type attribute

A feature of a particular Oracle Workflow item type, also known as an item attribute. An item type attribute is defined as a variable whose value can be looked up and set by the application that maintains the item. An item type attribute and its value is available to all activities in a process.

J

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.

journal entry category

A category used to indicate the purpose or nature of your journal entry. General Ledger associates each of your journal entry headers with a journal entry category. Journal entry categories specify what kind of transaction the journal entry represents.

journal entry source

An indicator of which feeder system your journal entries come from, such as Oracle Assets. General Ledger associates each of your journal entries with one journal entry source. This allows you to group related journal entry transactions for reporting and analysis in your general ledger.

K

key flexfield

An Oracle Applications feature you use to build custom fields used for entering and displaying information relating to your business. Oracle Assets uses the following key flexfields:
Accounting Flexfield
Category Flexfield
Location Flexfield
Asset Key Flexfield

L

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.

leasehold improvement

An improvement to leased property or leasehold. Leasehold improvements are normally amortized over the service life or the life of the lease, whichever is shorter.

life-based depreciation method

A depreciation method that spreads out the depreciation for an asset over a fixed life, usually using rates from a table.

life-to-date depreciation

The total depreciation taken for an asset since it was placed in service. Also known as accumulated depreciation.

location

A key flexfield combination specifying a particular place. You assign each asset to a location. Oracle Assets uses location information to produce Responsibility and Property Tax Reports.

Location Flexfield

Oracle Assets lets you define what information you want to keep about the locations you use. You use your Location Flexfield to define how you want to keep the information.

lookup code

The internal name of a value defined in an Oracle Workflow lookup type. See also lookup type.

lookup type

An Oracle Workflow predefined list of values. Each value in a lookup type has an internal and a display name. See also lookup code.

M

Mass Additions

An Oracle Assets feature that allows you to copy asset information from another system, such as Oracle Payables. Create Mass Additions for Oracle Assets creates mass addition lines for potential assets. You can review these mass addition lines in the Prepare Mass Additions window, and actually create an asset from the mass addition line by posting it to Oracle Assets.

Mass Change

A feature that allows you to change the prorate convention, depreciation method, life, rate, or capacity for a group of assets in a single transaction.

Mass Copy

A feature that allows you to copy a group of asset transactions from your corporate book to a tax book. Use Initial Mass Copy to create a new tax book. Then use Periodic Mass Copy each period to update the tax book with new assets and transactions.

Mass Depreciation Adjustment

A feature that allows you to adjust the depreciation expense in the previous fiscal year for all assets in a tax book. Oracle Assets adjusts the depreciation expense between the minimum and maximum depreciation amounts by a depreciation adjustment factor you specify.

Mass Purge

See archive, purge, restore.

Mass Revaluation

See revaluation.

Mass Transfers

A feature that allows you to transfer a group of assets between locations, employees, and general ledger depreciation expense accounts.

maximum depreciation expense

The maximum possible depreciation expense for an asset in a mass depreciation adjustment. The maximum depreciation expense for an asset is the greatest of the depreciation actually taken in the tax book, the amount needed to bring the accumulated depreciation up to the accumulated depreciation in the corporate book, or the amount needed to bring the accumulated depreciation up to the accumulated depreciation in the control book.

message distribution

A line at the bottom of the toolbar that displays helpful hints, warning messages, and basic data entry errors.

message line

A line on the bottom of a window that displays helpful hints or warning messages when you encounter an error.

minimum depreciation expense

The minimum possible depreciation expense for an asset in a mass depreciation adjustment. The minimum depreciation expense for an asset in a tax book is the amount needed to bring the accumulated depreciation up to the accumulated depreciation in the corporate book or control book, or zero, whichever is greater.

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

node

An instance of an activity in an Oracle Workflow process diagram as shown in the Process window of Oracle Workflow Builder. See also process.

O

P

parent asset

A parent asset has one or more subcomponent assets. First you add the parent asset. Then, you add the subcomponent asset and assign it to the parent asset in the Additions form. You can change parent/subcomponent relationships at any time.

partial retirement

A transaction that retires part of an asset. You can retire any number of units of a multiple unit asset or you can retire part of an asset cost. If you retire by units, Oracle Assets automatically calculates the cost retired.

period type

You use the general ledger accounting period types to define your general ledger calendar.

prior period addition

An addition is a prior period addition if you enter it in an accounting period that is after the period in which you placed the asset in service. Also known as retroactive addition.

prior period reinstatement

A reinstatement is a prior period reinstatement if you enter it in an accounting period that is after the period in which the retirement took place. Also known as retroactive reinstatement.

prior period retirement

A retirement is a prior period retirement if you enter it in an accounting period that is after the period in which you entered the retirement. Also known as retroactive retirement.

prior period transfer

A transfer is a prior period transfer if you enter it in an accounting period that is after the period in which the transfer took place. Also known as retroactive transfer.

process

A set of Oracle Workflow activities that need to be performed to accomplish a business goal. See also Account Generator, process activity, process definition.

process activity

An Oracle Workflow process modelled as an activity so that it can be referenced by other processes; also known as a subprocess. See also process.

process definition

An Oracle Workflow process as defined in the Oracle Workflow Builder. See also process.

production depreciation method

See units of production depreciation method.

production interface table

The table in which Oracle Assets stores the information you need to use the Production Interface. Information in the Production Interface table is stored in columns.

production upload

The process by which Oracle Assets loads production information from the Production Interface table into Oracle Assets. You can use the Production Information Upload process to transfer production information from a feeder system, such as a spreadsheet, to Oracle Assets.

prorate calendar

The prorate calendar determines the number of prorate periods in your fiscal year. It also determines, with the prorate or retirement convention, which depreciation rate to select from the rate table for your table-based depreciation methods. You must specify a prorate calendar for each book.

prorate convention

Oracle Assets uses the prorate convention to determine how much depreciation to take in the first and last year of an asset's life based on when you place the asset in service. If you retire an asset before it is fully reserved, Oracle Assets uses the retirement convention to determine how much depreciation to take in the last year of life based on the retirement date. Your tax department determines your prorate and retirement conventions.

prorate date

Oracle Assets uses the prorate date to calculate depreciation expense for the first and last year of an asset's life.

protection level

In Oracle Workflow, a numeric value ranging from 0 to 1000 that represents who the data is protected from for modification. When workflow data is defined, it can either be set to customizable (1000), meaning anyone can modify it, or it can be assigned a protection level that is equal to the access level of the user defining the data. In the latter case, only users operating at an access level equal to or lower than the data's protection level can modify the data. See also Account Generator.

purchase order (PO)

The order on which the purchasing department approved a purchase.

purge

To purge a fiscal year is to remove the depreciation expense and adjustment transaction records for that year from Oracle Assets. You must archive and purge all earlier fiscal years and archive this fiscal year before you can purge it.

Q

QuickCodes

An Oracle Assets feature that allows you to enter standard descriptions for your business. You can enter QuickCode values for your Property Types, Retirement Types, Asset Descriptions, Journal Entries, and Mass Additions Queue Names.

R

recoverable cost

The lesser of the cost ceiling or the current asset cost less the salvage value and ITC basis reduction amount. Recoverable cost is the total amount of depreciation you are allowed to take on an asset throughout its life.

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.

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 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.

responsibility

A level of authority within Oracle Assets. 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 Oracle Assets.

restore

To restore a fiscal year is to reload the depreciation expense and adjustment transaction records for that fiscal year into Oracle Assets from a storage device. You can only restore the most recently purged fiscal year.

result code

In Oracle Workflow, the internal name of a result value, as defined by the result type. See also result type, result value.

result type

In Oracle Workflow, the name of the lookup type that contains an activity's possible result values. See also result code, result value.

result value

In Oracle Workflow, the value returned by a completed activity, such as Approved. See also result code, result type.

retroactive addition

See prior period addition.

retroactive reinstatement

See prior period reinstatement.

retroactive retirement

See prior period retirement.

retroactive transfer

See prior period transfer.

revaluation

An Oracle Assets feature that allows you to adjust the cost of your assets by a revaluation rate. The cost adjustment is necessary due to inflation or deflation. You can define revaluation rules for accumulated depreciation, for amortization of revaluation reserve, and for revaluation ceilings.

S

segment

A single sub-field within a flexfield. You define the structure and meaning of individual segments when customizing a flexfield.

Shared use assets

When your accounting entities in the same corporate book share the use of an asset, you can apportion depreciation expense to each by percentage or units used.

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.

Standard Request Submission

A standard interface in Oracle Applications in which you run and monitor your application's reports and other processes.

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.

supplier

A business or individual that provides goods or services or both in return for payment.

supplier number

A number or combination of numbers and characters that uniquely identifies a supplier within your system.

T

table-based depreciation method

A depreciation method that uses the table-based method (rates) to calculate depreciation based on the asset life and the recoverable cost or net book value.

tablespace

The area in which an Oracle database is divided to hold tables.

Tax book

A depreciation book that you use to track financial information for your reporting authorities.

transaction type

The kind of action performed on an asset. Transaction types include Addition, Adjustment, Transfer, and Retirement.

transition

In Oracle Workflow, the relationship that defines the completion of one activity and the activation of another activity within a process. In a process diagram, the arrow drawn between two activities represents a transition. See also activity, Workflow Engine.

U

unit of measure

A label for the production quantities for a units of production asset. The unit used to measure production amounts. Each unit of measure belongs to a unit of measure class.

unit of measure classes

Groups of units of measure with similar characteristics. Typical units of measure classes are Volume and Length.

units of production depreciation method

A depreciation method that calculates the depreciation for an asset based on the actual production or use for that period. This method uses the asset's actual production for the period divided by the capacity of the asset to determine depreciation. Oracle Assets multiplies this fraction by the asset's recoverable cost.

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.

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.

vendor

See supplier.

W

Workflow Engine

The Oracle Workflow component that implements a workflow process definition. The Workflow Engine manages the state of all activities, automatically executes functions, maintains a history of completed activities, and detects error conditions and starts error processes. The Workflow Engine is implemented in server PL/SQL and activated when a call to an engine API is made. See also Account Generator, activity, function, item type.

X

Y

year-to-date depreciation

The depreciation taken for an asset so far this fiscal year.

Z