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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

Organizations


E-Business Suite uses many types of organizations. These are important to the framework and functionality of E-Business Suite. The following is an example of an organization hierarchy. The organization is a data entity that is truly owned by the HR application/module in E-Business Suite, but if HR is not fully installed, that is you are not using Oracle HR, it gets installed in a shared mode. In this situation most people use the Inventory module to access, create, modify, and maintain organizations. If you had HR installed and were using Oracle HR you would not use this function from Inventory.

The previous figure is a linear depiction of how organizations are used within E-Business Suite. The following points explain in a little detail what each element means and how it is used:

  • The Business Group is a default (with the same name) provided on installation and you do not need to create a new one; you can use this default and change the name if needed. No functionality is affected...