Enable U.S. Federal Financials

To use Oracle U.S. Federal Financials, an administrator must first enable U.S. Federal Financials in the Functional Setup Manager (FSM).

Enable U.S. Federal Financials only if you're a US federal agency. When you enable U.S. Federal Financials, you incorporate processes, data elements, reporting, and accounting methods specific to federal agencies.

Before you start

You should have a custom role based on the Application Implementation Consultant role (ORA_ASM_APPLICATION_IMPLEMENTATION_CONSULTANT_JOB) to perform this task with the appropriate assigned privileges.

Note: When you enable the U.S. Federal Financials functional area, the US Federal context will default to Global_Attribute_Category. When the U.S. Federal Financials functional area is disabled, US Federal context will not default to Global_Attribute_Category. You must identify the supplier as Federal, General Fund, or Non-Federal within the Supplier GDFs.

1. From the Navigator, select My Enterprise > Offerings.

2. Under Offerings, select Financials.

3. In the right pane, click Opt In Features.

   Note: You can also click New Features to view a description of the new features for the release.

4. Make sure that Financials is selected from the Opt In drop-down list at the top of the page. And then scroll down until you see U.S. Federal Financials in the list and click the name.

5. Click the Enable checkbox next to U.S. Federal Financials.