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In Release 12, Oracle Assets introduces a number of new features. Some of these features require a data upgrade and involve terminology, prompt, and flow changes. Some of the existing functionality is now obsolete.
In Release 12, Oracle Assets adds Subledger Accounting (SLA) functionality. By default, transactions in the current fiscal year in Asset books will have their accounting lines migrated to the Subledger Accounting model. Accounting for current period depreciation will be upgraded only if depreciation has already run for the period, and the period remains open. After the upgrade, customers can run the SLA postupgrade process to update accounting for the past transaction data as needed.
The upgrade for Subledger Accounting performs a number of tasks:
Transactions that have occurred in the current open period will be upgraded. Previously, accounting records were not created until after depreciation had run. The upgrade will create these lines immediately. For example, if a user added an asset and went to the Transaction History form, he would not see any Addition accounting lines if depreciation had not been run. Postupgrade, however, these records would appear in the Transaction History form for the Addition event. The following transactions are affected:
Additions
Backdated Additions
Backdated Transfers
Retirements
Accounting lines for transaction, depreciation, and deferred depreciation events will be copied from the core Assets data model into the Subledger Accounting data model. These accounting lines that are upgraded would be viewable in the new Subledger Accounting pages and reports. Accounting lines that were not upgraded would only appear in the old historical forms and reports.
For transaction events, only the data for the current fiscal year are upgraded by default. When there are less than six periods in the current fiscal year, additional data from the previous fiscal year are upgraded to ensure that there are at least six periods worth of data. The customer, however, can change this default setting in the preupgrade. For depreciation and deferred depreciation events, only the current open period is upgraded, and this is not changeable during the preupgrade. The customer can upgrade any of the transactions, depreciation, and deferred depreciation events that are not upgraded during the down time with the SLA postupgrade process.
The Subledger Accounting upgrade is generic, and there are very few assumptions that have been made:
All of the accounting lines data that are upgraded are copied as is, and no calculations or functional checks are done. Therefore, the data after the upgrade will be the same as it was before the upgrade.
Transactions that have no accounting impact will not be upgraded. That is, if there are no accounting lines corresponding to a transaction event, that record will not be upgraded. Tax book events that have accounting lines that correspond to their corporate book transaction event, but not a tax book one, however, will still be upgraded.
Books or reporting books that are disabled will not be upgraded.
After the Subledger Accounting upgrade, a number of changes have been made to the business flows for the Journal Entry processing as the following:
Profile option FA: Use Workflow Account Generation is set to Yes during the upgrade. Customers should analyze current customizations in the workflow setup. If the requirement is to use the rules in workflow for generating code combinations for asset transactions, there are two options:
Re-implement the custom rules in Subledger Accounting.
Use the workflow rules as they are, which is the default value upon upgrade.
Journal Source and Journal Category setups have been removed from the Book Controls setup form. This setup has moved to Subledger Accounting.
Depreciation Expense Account and the Bonus Expense Account for all category and book combinations in the Asset Category setup form have been upgraded from a single segment account value to entire account combinations.
The intercompany account setup in Book Controls form has been replaced by Intercompany/Intracompany setup in Accounting Setups.
Note: In Release 12, the Intercompany setups will be maintained at the ledger level. The upgrade will update the existing Intercompany setup at book level to ledger level.
Users will need to run Create Accounting instead of Create Journal Entries.
Users will need to run Calculate Deferred Depreciation and then Create Accounting instead of Create Deferred Depreciation Journal Entries.
The following lists those features that are obsolete in Release 12 or replaced by another feature:
The Create Journal Entries and Rollback Journal Entries programs are now obsolete. Create Journal Entries has been replaced by Create Accounting.
The Create Deferred Depreciation Journal Entries program is now obsolete. Users now need to run Calculate Deferred Depreciation followed by Create Accounting.
The Account Drill Down report has been replaced by a new Subledger Accounting report called the Account Analysis report.
Profile option "FA: Include Nonrecoverable Tax in Mass Addition" is obsolete. This is replaced by Post Accounting Programs under SLA. The setup for all eligible lines from Payables to Assets for Mass Additions Create program is done in Post Accounting Programs.
Invoice distributions from Oracle Payables that have been interfaced to Assets will be upgraded to display the Invoice Line Number. This new field will appear in the Asset Workbench, Financial Inquiry, and Mass Additions Prepare forms.
Commitment and Investment Law will be migrated from Global Descriptive Flexfields specific to Greece localizations into named fields that will appear in the Asset Workbench and be available to all users. The global_attribute1 and global_attribute2 columns in Assets will be copied into the Commitment and Investment Law fields, respectively.