Blocks, Registers, and UBEs for SPED Accounting

The SPED accounting reporting process consists of generating data for reporting and then sending that data to the government.

The data that you generate includes:

• Blocks

  Blocks include groupings of registers with similar information. For example, block J includes financial statement information.

• Registers

  Registers include records, which are detailed information for each register. Oracle programming creates all of the registers for the blocks that it generates, but populates the detailed information for only required data that resides in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne tables.

  For example, registers for block J include balance sheet information (register J100) and income statement information (register J150).

• Records

  Records are the details of the information for the register.

  For example, register J005 (Accounting Statements) includes the beginning and ending dates of the statements, and other information.

You use the SPED Job Administrator program (P76B940) to generate the blocks, the registers for the blocks, and to populate the fields for the registers for which data resides in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne tables. If you set up the Block Setup program (P76B0730) with custom programs, the system also generates blocks, registers, and records for which you run your custom programs.

After you generate the data, you can review the text files and copy the text files to media that you submit to the government.