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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

Configuration


Generally, you set system parameters during your initial implementation, but you can review and modify them, as needed, later. Many Oracle customers find that as their processes mature, configuration changes are necessary. The following activities can be managed using configuration options in Oracle Treasury:

  • Portfolio codes

  • Confirmation templates

  • Journal entry actions

  • Deals for bond and stock issues

  • Company and counter-party profiles (counterparty is generally a bank)

  • Policies—deal and product types, limits, and hedging policies

  • Limits

The following screenshot shows the configuration steps to define deals and their subtypes; these help in managing an investment portfolio:

A deal is a specific investment vehicle that you can use to manage your funds. Treasury allows you to track deals and manage activity against a deal so that you can review all the information in a single place.

You can set up deal types including stocks, bonds, registering certificates available for issue, setting...