2 Implement Account Reconciliation Checklist for Service Administrators

Welcome, Account Reconciliation Service Administrators!

Here’s a checklist to help you step through your Account Reconciliation implementation, with links to documentation and other resources.

Note:

This checklist is meant to be a general guideline for tasks to be performed for an Account Reconciliation implementation and the subsequent ongoing maintenance. It is assumed that the Identity Domain Administrator has created users and granted predefined roles. There may be more or fewer tasks required for this role on Day 1 and throughout your initial days using Account Reconciliation, depending on the involvement of implementation partners, your organization’s requirements, and the application design.

Review and bookmark the EPM Cloud Operations Guide

1. Open the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Operations Guide and review and bookmark the Troubleshooting chapter for resolution information and the Requests chapter for optional updates.

2. Read this: Enrolling in the Implementation Success Program (20 minutes)

Define settings and preferences

Configure settings such as alerts, attributes, currencies, data load definitions, and many aspects of the system, including system settings.

1. Read this: Overview of Reconciliation Compliance Configuration (15 minutes)

2. Watch this: Get Started Configuring the System (5 minutes)

Learn about setup best practices

Understand best practice suggestions for implementation methodologies and format design.

1. Read this: Learning About Setup Best Practices (15 minutes)

2. Watch this: Best Practices in Account Reconciliation (3:15 minutes)

Setup user access

Grant application-specific roles and assign access permissions to users, groups, and Account Reconciliation artifacts

1. Read this: Understanding Security in Account Reconciliation (20 minutes)

2. Watch this: Security in Account Reconciliation (2:36 minutes)

Load data and configure

1. Learn about data integration for Account Reconciliation

   • Read this: Understanding Data Integration for Account Reconciliation (20 minutes)

   • Watch these:

     Loading Different Types of Data (Part One) (5:08 minutes)

     Loading Different Types of Data (Part Two) (3:07 minutes)

2. Configure Reconciliation Compliance

   Read this: Configuring Reconciliation Compliance (30 minutes)

3. Configure Periods

   Read this: Configuring Periods (10 minutes)

4. Define Formats

   Read this: Defining Formats (10 minutes)

5. Set up Profiles

   Read this: Working with Profiles (10 minutes)

Perform tasks

The following tasks may be done in any order and are optional depending on your application requirements:

1. Set up Group Reconciliations

   Read this: Working with Group Reconciliations (15 minutes)

2. Set up Transaction Matching

   Read this: Setting Up Transaction Matching (15 minutes)

   or

   Watch this: Configuring Transaction Matching (2:43 minutes)

3. Browse the Table of Contents in the Administering Account Reconciliation guide to see if other tasks are required for your implementation.

   Browse this: Administering Account Reconciliation (30 minutes)

Communicate with your users

When the application is ready for use, broadcast the URL of the environment to users.

Follow your company’s process for communicating with users.