The Oracle Financials for the Americas User Guide provides region-specific and country-specific information about using the Oracle E-Business Suite. Because many features of E-Business Suite run from core applications, you should use this guide in conjunction with your product-specific documentation.
This guide provides information about using:
Oracle Financials for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico.
Features that meet regional and country-specific requirements.
Country-specific reports.
Features in Oracle E-Business Suite for the countries in the Americas region.
Companies may implement an enterprise structure that models multiple operating units per legal entity, as long as it is understood the following limitations apply:
Statutory features (for example tax reporting) for LAD countries may not function properly if a legal entity is split into multiple operating units.
Document sequencing is available at the ledger level only. Legal entities within the same ledger must share document sequences. If each legal entity requires its own numbering sequence, you must set up a separate ledger for each legal entity.
Release 12 Latin America Product Localization features require a 1-1-1 implementation per Legal Entity (1 Legal Entity, 1 Operating Unit, and 1 Ledger).
In Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, the core applications manage many features that were previously managed at the regional and country level. Please refer to your product-specific documentation for information about these features in Oracle Financials for the Americas:
Company information
Use the Legal Entity Configurator to set up legal entities and legal establishments to represent your company and its divisions and offices, and to set up and maintain related company information, including locations, classifications, and legal registrations.
Company tax information
Use E-Business Tax to set up and maintain first party tax profiles and tax registrations for the legal establishments in your company.
Tax setup
Use E-Business Tax to set up and maintain the tax configuration for VAT and other non-withholding taxes, including tax regimes, taxes, statuses, rates, jurisdictions, product and party classifications, and tax rules.
Important: Do not use E-Business Tax to set up tax regimes and taxes for use with the Latin Tax Engine. Use Latin tax categories, tax codes, and tax groups for LTE tax calculation purposes. Additionally, use the standard Withholding functionality instead of E-Business Tax to setup Payables Withholdings or Latin American Withholdings.
Customer and supplier tax information
Use E-Business Tax to set up and maintain third party tax profiles for your customers and suppliers.
Payables Open Interface Tables
Refer to Oracle Payables for information about the Payables Open Interface Tables and Payables Open Interface Import.
Refer to the Integration Repository for descriptions of the global attribute usage of the AP_INVOICES_INTERFACE and AP_INVOICE_LINES_INTERFACE tables.
Creating Accounting Entries
If necessary, then run the Create Accounting Program to process eligible accounting events to create subledger journal entries.