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Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.1 Implementation

By : Ranjeet Yadav
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Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.1 Implementation

By: Ranjeet Yadav

Overview of this book

PeopleSoft financial management applications have been recognized as a leading ERP product across a wide range of industries that helps organizations automate their accounting operations, cut costs, and streamline business processes. They offer industry leading solutions for organizations' global needs, however complex they may be. PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.1 Implementation is probably the only learning resource for a novice practitioner, who may otherwise have to rely on thousands of pages of documentation for such a complex ERP system. This book covers all the crucial elements of PeopleSoft Financials—a business processes, configuration, and implementation guide. This is the ideal one-stop resource before entering the world of PeopleSoft implementation. Beginning with the fundamentals of a generic financial ERP system, this book moves on to basic PeopleSoft concepts and then dives into discussing the individual modules in detail. You will see how to leverage financial modules such as Billing, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Management, Expenses, and General Ledger. Dedicated chapters discuss key PeopleSoft features such as application security and commitment control for budgeting. You will learn fundamental ERP concepts such as the chart of accounts, used by organizations for recording and reporting financial transactions, and how to implement them in PeopleSoft through chartfields, business units, and SetIDs.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.1 Implementation
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating cash advances


PeopleSoft Expenses offers a capability where an employee can create a cash advance request, which can be routed through various levels of hierarchy before it is approved. Depending on an organization's policy, an approved cash advance may or may not result in a system-generated payment. Irrespective of payment creation, a cash advance must be created and approved to maintain an audit trail.

Follow this navigation to enter a cash advance request:

Travel and Expenses | Travel and Expense Center | Cash Advance | Create

The following screenshot shows a sample cash advance:

  • Business Purpose: This is a mandatory field where we can select a business purpose (defined on a configuration page) for the cash advance.

  • Details section: This area is used to enter individual cash advance lines. Select an appropriate cash advance source in the Source column along with its description and advance amount.

  • Import ATM Advances: This hyperlink is used to automatically populate the ATM advance...