4. Maintaining Reporting Line Structure

To recall, in the Chart of Accounts screen, you define a GL and set up a GL hierarchy for your bank. We shall call this hierarchy the regular GL structure of the bank. Your Head Office or Central Bank may desire to have the balance sheet and profit and loss account categorized in a structure that is different from the regular GL structure of your bank. Oracle FLEXCUBE offers you the flexibility of defining an alternate reporting structure for Head Office and Central Bank reporting purposes.

This is achieved by setting up reporting lines. The heads of financial information required for your Head Office and Central bank are defined as Reporting Lines. Each of these lines is assigned a unique code. After you have set up reporting lines, you can indicate the GLs that should report to the line.

Note

Ideally, you should first set up the Head Office and Central Bank lines and then define the regular GL structure for the bank. The advantage is that when defining the regular GL structure, you can indicate the Head Office or Central Bank line to which a GL should re­port.

This chapter contains the following section:

• Section 4.1, "Reporting Line"

4.1 Reporting Line

This section contains the following topic:

• Section 4.1.1, "Maintaining Reporting Line"

4.1.1 Maintaining Reporting Line

In the Reporting Line Maintenance screen, you can define reporting lines (heads of financial information) and indicate an alternate reporting structure for your Head Office and Central Bank.

To invoke this screen, click on General Ledger in the Application Browser, select Reporting Lines and click on Detailed under it. You can also invoke this screen by typing ‘GLDXLINE’ in the field at the top right corner of the Application tool bar and clicking on the adjoining arrow button.

To create a new reporting line structure, click new icon.

In this table, you capture the following for your Head Office and the Central bank reporting lines:

• The branch code
• A code to identify the reporting line
• A description of the line
• The type of line — Head Office or Central Bank
• Category specified for this line — asset, liability, income, expense, etc.
• The type of line – Node or Leaf
• The parent line code for this reporting line

The reporting lines that you create are, for alternate reporting. Alternate reporting is required when the GL structure defined for the balance sheet of the Head Office or the Central Bank are different from the GL structure created by your bank.

The order in which the GL categories - Asset, Liability, Expense, Income, Contingent Asset, Contingent Liability appear in the balance sheet cannot be changed. However, under a category you can redefine the position of the various GL heads and shift a head from one GL category to another, if required.

For all practical purposes, GL heads appear in order of their numeric sequence number assigned.

Note

Central Bank and Head Office reporting lines can be created only at the Head Office of your bank.