Selecting Source Accounting Entities

Select accounting entities to specify the Fusion Financials/E-Business Suite ledgers or PeopleSoft business units from which the metadata and/or data is extracted.

After you register and initialize your source systems for use with Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management, Enterprise Edition, you select the source system accounting entities (ledgers or business units) to use for integration. Segments and chartfields are the terminologies specific to Fusion, E-Business Suite, and PeopleSoft.

To select source accounting entities in a source system:

  1. On the Setup tab, under Register, select Source Accounting Entity.
  2. In Source Accounting Entities, select the Entities tab.
  3. Select the source system type.
  4. Select a source system.

    The source accounting entities are displayed in a grid. You can click the column header to sort any column. The Entities tab displays the following columns:

    For Fusion and E-Business Suite source systems:

    • Select—A check mark indicates that the accounting entity (ledger) is available.

    • Accounting Entity—Name of the ledger

    • Chart of Accounts—Chart of accounts name

    • Currency—The functional currency of the Fusion and E-Business Suite ledger

    • Calendar—The Fusion and E-Business Suite ledger calendar. The Fusion and E-Business Suite ledger is a collection of chart of accounts, currency, and calendar. For example, 4–4–5, Weekly, Accounting, and so on.

    • Responsibility Name—Displays the general ledger drill-through responsibility. The drill through responsibility must be set in FDMEE to enable users to drill through to E-Business Suite. The responsibility selected must have the authority to view summary journals and journal details for the selected ledger in the E-Business Suite.

    For PeopleSoft source systems:

    • Select—Select the check box to make the business unit available.

    • Business Unit—Business unit name

    • Currency—The base currency for the business unit

  5. For Fusion and E-Business Suite source systems, select the general ledger Responsibility Name. See Assigning General Ledger Responsibility.
  6. For each ledger or business unit that you want to make available in FDMEE, select the check box.
  7. Click Save.

Tip:

To filter by the business unit or accounting entity, ensure that the filter row is displayed above the column headers. (Click the Query by Example button. to toggle the filter row.) Then, enter the text to filter.