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Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.1 Implementation

By : Ranjeet Yadav
Book Image

Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.1 Implementation

By: Ranjeet Yadav

Overview of this book

PeopleSoft financial management applications have been recognized as a leading ERP product across a wide range of industries that helps organizations automate their accounting operations, cut costs, and streamline business processes. They offer industry leading solutions for organizations' global needs, however complex they may be. PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.1 Implementation is probably the only learning resource for a novice practitioner, who may otherwise have to rely on thousands of pages of documentation for such a complex ERP system. This book covers all the crucial elements of PeopleSoft Financials—a business processes, configuration, and implementation guide. This is the ideal one-stop resource before entering the world of PeopleSoft implementation. Beginning with the fundamentals of a generic financial ERP system, this book moves on to basic PeopleSoft concepts and then dives into discussing the individual modules in detail. You will see how to leverage financial modules such as Billing, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Management, Expenses, and General Ledger. Dedicated chapters discuss key PeopleSoft features such as application security and commitment control for budgeting. You will learn fundamental ERP concepts such as the chart of accounts, used by organizations for recording and reporting financial transactions, and how to implement them in PeopleSoft through chartfields, business units, and SetIDs.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.1 Implementation
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Loading reporting tables


We already discussed how PeopleSoft calculates depreciation using the Depreciation Calculation batch process. The AM module offers various delivered depreciation reports such as Depreciation by Period, Depreciation by Fiscal Period, and Depreciation Activity. In order to use these depreciation reports, we first need to execute a batch process known as Load Reporting Table (AMDPREPT).

Follow this navigation to run this process:

Asset Management | Financial Reports | Load Reporting Tables | Depr Reporting Table

The following screenshot shows the run control page used to specify the process parameters:

This process loads the depreciation details for assets in the Depreciation Reporting table (DEPR_RPT). All of the depreciation reports derive their data from this table, so it is important to load it using the batch process regularly.

  • Use Open Trans : When this checkbox is selected, it instructs the system to process only the new open transactions. Recall that...