Book Image

Oracle E-Business Suite Financials R12: A Functionality Guide

By : Mohan Iyer
Book Image

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

Multi-currency


E-Business Suite allows users to transact in any currency as long as an exchange rate exists between the transacted currency and the ledger currency.

The ledger currency represents the currency that Oracle General Ledger will maintain balances for your ledger. (This is also referred to as the functional or recording currency.)

When a transaction is entered in the ledger currency and the journal is posted, a balance is maintained for the accounts affected in the ledger currency. When a transaction is entered in a currency other than the ledger currency, the transaction is converted to the ledger currency based upon specific exchange rates available and stored in the ledger currency.

Exchange rates can be maintained for each currency rate type, which are user-definable. There are three seeded rate types that exist in the system:

  • Corporate (a standard rate used throughout the organization typically for a period of time).

  • User (entered at transaction time by user).

  • Spot (for...