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Oracle E-Business Suite Financials R12: A Functionality Guide

By : Mohan Iyer
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Oracle E-Business Suite Financials R12: A Functionality Guide

By: Mohan Iyer

Overview of this book

<p>Oracle EBS Financials provide organizations with solutions to a wide range of long- and short-term accounting system issues. Oracle E-Business Suite is the most comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications that provides the most complete, integrated business intelligence portfolio<br /><br />Oracle E-Business Suite: A Functionality Guide – helps in binding the two skill sets together – knowledge of the software and the business knowledge of the user.<br /><br />This guide contains everything you need to know to maximize your implementation payback or return on investment.<br /><br />This book starts with an overview of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 where we cover the foundation features of Oracle Financial Management modules which include Navigation within Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, Multiple Organization Access Control (MOAC), key aspects of Application Security and much more. The book then covers in detail General Ledger, Sub Ledger Accounting, Assets, Cash Management, Treasury, E-Business Tax, and much more.</p>
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Oracle E-Business Suite Financials R12: A Functionality Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Financial reporting


Standard reports in E-Business Suite do not provide for an income statement or balance sheet. This is facilitated by the Financial Statement Generator (FSG). FSG functionality normally generates output in text format, but with the introduction of BI (XML) Publisher you have the capability to generate these reports in PDF, Excel, and HTML.

Financial Statement Generator (FSG) enables a column and a row combination to generate a report. Primarily the rows show all the data elements and the column can be used for identifying the period for which you are reporting.

One important thing to note is that FSG can only report on GL balances, so the rows will—in most cases—contain a GL Account string (your Account Flexfield segments) and the columns contain a period identifier. This would give you a monthly column for say the balance in your cash account.

Row definition

Rows are used to identify the account balances that would be shown in the report. The following screenshot shows the...