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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

Trading Community Architecture


Customers (as suppliers now) are managed and owned by the Trading Community Architecture (TCA) . This framework enables the management of master data in a single location. This framework started in early 2000 and is completed with Release 12. So when you create a customer, the following is the hierarchy of data you enter:

  • Party

  • Account

  • Address

  • Site

  • Business Purpose

This is true for all master data managed by TCA, including employees, suppliers, customers, and banks.

The party is not where E-Business Suite transactions occur. The transactions are performed at the account level. A party account is identified as a customer for transactions in Oracle Order Management and Oracle Receivables. It also identifies the supplier for Oracle Purchasing and Oracle Payables.

The details of TCA are not covered in this book. For more information on TCA and the technical and framework design please refer to the Trading Community Architecture Reference Guide (Part No. E13569...