Oracle General Ledger Documentation Update
This section contains important information. Please read this section for the latest updates and additions to your user's guide.
Using Budget Rules to Distribute Budget Amounts
Applying Rules to Adjusting Periods
There is a new check box available by choosing the Options button on the Budget Rules window:
Apply Rules to Adjusting Periods: Mark this check box if you want your budget rules applied to adjusting periods as well as to regular periods. Leave this check box unchecked if you want budget rules applied only to non-adjusting periods.
For example, assume the following:
- Your accounting calendar includes 13 periods -- twelve standard calendar months, plus one adjusting period that overlaps period 12.
- You create a new budget rule for account 01.100.5000.000:
If the option to apply rules to adjusting periods is enabled, account 01.100.5000.000 will have a budget amount of $10,000 for all 13 periods. If the adjusting periods option is not enabled, the account will have a budget balance of $10,000 for the first 12 periods and zero for the adjusting period.
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Using Budget Rules to Distribute Budget Amounts.
Performing an Account Inquiry
New Information About Drilling Down to Journal Detail
You can drill down to your subledgers independent from their multiple organization setup. When you drill down to subledger details, General Ledger will show you all of the transactions that comprise an account balance, regardless of which organization originated the transaction.
To provide this feature, General Ledger's Account Inquiry window ignores the setting of the profile option, MO: Operating Unit.
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Performing an Account Inquiry.
Setting General Ledger Profile Options.
Defining Journal Sources
New Predefined Journal Sources
General Ledger includes four new journal sources that are not included in the table of predefined journal sources:
Also, the Project Accounting journal source has been renamed to Projects.
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Defining Journal Sources.
Defining Journal Categories
New Predefined Journal Categories
General Ledger includes fourteen new journal categories that are not included in the table of predefined journal categories:
| Bank Charges
| Inventory
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| Bank Receipts
| Miscellaneous Transaction
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| Burden Cost
| Move/Merge
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| Cancellation
| Move/Merge Reversal
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| Confirmation
| Rejection
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| Cross Currency
| Remittance
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| Intercompany Transfer
| Write-off
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Defining Journal Categories.
Purging Journals
New Profile Option
We added a new profile option, GL: Number of Purge Workers, that allows multiple journal purge processes to run in parallel. This can speed the processing of your journal purge operation when you have large volumes of journals to be purged. Also, if one parallel purge process fails due to an error, the others will continue. As a result, you will only need to repeat the purge operation for those processes that failed.
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Set this profile option equal to the number of processes you want to be able to run at the same time.
You can set this profile option at the user level. Or, your System Administrator can set this profile option at the site, application, responsibility or user level.
Drilling Down to Journal Detail
New Feature: Drilling Down from a Reporting Set of Books
When you perform an account balance inquiry in a reporting set of books, you can drill down to the journal detail that comprises the reporting currency balance. If the journal detail is a converted journal, i.e., one that was converted automatically when the original journal was posted in the primary set of books, you can drill down further to see the primary currency journal amounts.
Multiple Reporting Currencies Overview
Out of Date Information
As a result of last minute changes to the Multiple Reporting Currencies (MRC) feature, some of the information in our discussions about MRC is out of date. For the most current information about using MRC, please refer to the publication Multiple Reporting Currencies in Oracle Applications.
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Multiple Reporting Currencies
