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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

Cash forecasting


Cash forecasting is a tool that integrates within the E-Business Suite and with external data sources to allow an enterprise to manage cash flow into the business based on configured templates. These templates are configurable and you can choose the products/applications you want to integrate selectively.

A template contains cash forecast specifications, and the number and type of rows and columns to create custom forecast templates. Templates determine the presentation of sources (rows) and forecast periods (columns) for your cash forecasts. An important aspect is the forecast period types, either GL periods or days.

The source information from the following shows the inflow of cash:

  • Receivables customer invoices (based on due date)

  • Receivable customer receipts, historical and uncleared – unapplied on account

  • Uninvoiced sales orders

  • Opportunities that have not been converted to orders

  • GL revenue budgets

  • Treasury

  • External sources

  • User-defined inflow

The source information from the...