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Oracle E-Business Suite 12 Financials Cookbook

By : Yemi Onigbode
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Oracle E-Business Suite 12 Financials Cookbook

By: Yemi Onigbode

Overview of this book

Oracle EBS Financials Suite is a solution that provides out-of-the-box features to meet global financial reporting and tax requirements with one accounting, tax, banking, and payments model and makes it easy to operate shared services across businesses and regions. Have you ever wondered how the EBS Financials modules integrate with each other, and do you want to know how this is done quickly? If so, this book is for you. You may have read about what EBS financials does, but with this book on your work desk you will see how to do it. The Oracle E-Business Suite 12 Financials Cookbook will enable you to taste the core functionalities of the main modules using bite size recipes. Each recipe is organized in a way that will enable you to learn the core steps to perform in a key business scenario; it then dives deeper into concepts and scenarios. Discover scenario-based recipes, designed to help you understand how the end-to-end processes within EBS R12 Financials modules are linked together, through touch points. With each chapter, this book develops a full business end-to-end scenario to cover the financial modules. You will start by creating items in Inventory, and then purchase items in Procurement. Then you will move on to entering supplier invoices and paying them in Payables and creating and managing assets. See how items are sold and shipped to customers in Order Management, and how funds are received from customer in Receivables. Manage cash and transfer transactions to General Ledger, and then close periods.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Oracle E-Business Suite 12 Financials Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 4. Managing Assets

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Adding assets

  • Adjusting assets

  • Depreciating assets

  • Retiring assets

  • Reviewing asset accounting transactions

Introduction

Assets used in an organization need to be maintained and accounted for. Assets can be loaded from payables, projects, or from spreadsheets using Web Application Desktop Integrator (ADI). In this chapter, we will look at how to maintain assets by adding, adjusting, transferring, depreciating, and retiring assets. We will also review asset accounting transactions. Let's start by looking at the asset management process.

The following diagram summarizes the asset management process:

  1. 1. The Employee requests the asset.

  2. 2. An Approver authorizes that the asset can be used by the employee.

  3. 3. The Asset Manager procures the asset or issues the asset out of inventory. The asset is added to Oracle assets.

  4. 4. The Employee uses the asset.

  5. 5. Any adjustment that needs to be made to the asset including costs, reallocations, and so on...