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Oracle Financials E-Business Suite, Release 12 Period End Procedures i

ORACLE FINANCIALS

E-BUSINESS SUITE, RELEASE 12 PERIOD-END PROCEDURES

An Oracle White Paper

June, 2009

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Introduction

Background

This document has been put together by members of Oracle's internal EMEA

Financials Professional Community, acknowledging that every Financials customer

needs to successfully close the accounting books each period. Before the first external

publication, various people from EMEA Applications Consulting and Financials

Product Development have reviewed and enriched the content. Read the paragraph

„Status and Feedback‟ below, if you have any comments or feedback.

Objectives

This document provides guidance on period end procedures in Release 12 for Oracle

Payables, Oracle Purchasing, Oracle Inventory, Oracle Order Management, Oracle

Receivables, Oracle Assets, Oracle Projects, Oracle Cash Management, Oracle

Treasury and Oracle General Ledger. It is intended to be generic, and does not relate

to a specific organization. Both mandatory and optional steps are included herein.

Procedures particular to year-end processing are also described.

This document intends to provide a reference for planning period-end procedures for

„real-life‟ implementations. It describes the fundamental period-end steps involved for

each, with particular emphasis on balancing the subledger applications to Oracle

General Ledger, and attempts to provide an overview of the relative timing of these

procedures for all installed Oracle applications.

It is therefore the intention of this document to provide content from which relevant

sections can be extracted, according to the applications installed for a particular

organization. Any organization may choose to customize their period-end and year-end

processes, for example opting to run additional reports, particular to the organization.

Although this document particularly refers to „Period-End Procedures‟, many of the

processes can be performed more regularly throughout the accounting period, as

required. Each subledger application provides control as to when and how often data is

transferred from the subledger application to the General Ledger.

Assumptions

These „Period-End Procedures‟ were written with the assumption that Oracle

Financials was implemented for a single operating unit. Where an organization has

implemented the „Multi-Org‟ features of Oracle Financials, these procedures would

need to be performed for each operating unit individually unless Multi-Org Access

Control is enabled.

Note: R12 requires multi-org functionality to be used. For further details refer to

Oracle® Applications Upgrade Guide: Release 11i to Release 12

Oracle Workflow is incorporated in the Release 12 applications. It is assumed that

these Workflow Processes will be monitored and attended to by a System

Administrator on a regular basis. Some Workflow Processes like the Requisition

Approval Workflow or the Purchase Order Approval Workflow will require a direct

response from a message recipient rather than a System Administrator.

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Organization

This white paper contains twelve chapters and one appendix where you can find

interesting links to more information.

The first chapter describes the dependencies between the modules and the biggest

change between Release 11i and Release 12, which is the introduction of Subledger

Accounting (SLA). Then, the next ten chapters outline period-end procedures

appropriate to the Oracle Applications covered in this document. The last chapter

displays a summary of the main period-end procedures for each application and the

relative timing of each.

Attention: If you are using more than one application, the last chapter is a

good reference to see that the order of the steps for each application are

undertaken in the right sequence, relative to the other applications you are

using.

Status and Feedback

This white paper is intended to be a living document. As we gather new or changed

information, we will revise and re-publish this paper. Therefore, we welcome all

feedback from you. On the bottom of the My Oracle Support note where you have

downloaded this document is a link where you can email us your comments.

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................................. II

CHAPTER 1 SLA AND PERIOD END CLOSE DEPENDENCIES ................................................................................................... 8

Sub Ledger Accounting (SLA) – Business Process......................................................................................................... 8

Sub Ledger Accounting (SLA) – Process Change .......................................................................................................... 8

Subledger Accounting (SLA) – Reconciliation .............................................................................................................. 9

Subledger Accounting (SLA) Close Process – General Steps....................................................................................... 10

General – Period End Close Dependencies ................................................................................................................ 11

CHAPTER 2 ORACLE ORDER MANAGEMENT ...................................................................................................................... 12

Business Requirements ............................................................................................................................................... 12

Procedures ................................................................................................................................................................. 12

1. Complete All Transactions for the Period Being Closed ...................................................................................... 12

2. Ensure all Interfaces are Completed for the Period (Optional) ............................................................................. 13

3. Review Open Orders and Check the Workflow Status ......................................................................................... 14

4. Review Held Orders ............................................................................................................................................ 14

5. Review Customer Acceptances (Optional) ........................................................................................................... 15

6. Review Discounts ............................................................................................................................................... 15

7. Review Backorders ............................................................................................................................................. 15

8. Review and Correct Order Exceptions ................................................................................................................. 16

9. Reconcile to Oracle Inventory ............................................................................................................................. 16

10. Create Service Contracts (Optional) .................................................................................................................. 16

11. Reconcile to Oracle Receivables (Optional) ....................................................................................................... 16

12. Run Standard Period End Reports ..................................................................................................................... 17

CHAPTER 3 ORACLE CASH MANAGEMENT ........................................................................................................................ 18

Business Requirements ............................................................................................................................................... 18

Procedures ................................................................................................................................................................. 18

1. Complete Daily Cash Management Activities ..................................................................................................... 18

2. Load Bank Statements ........................................................................................................................................ 18

3. Generate Sweep Transactions ............................................................................................................................. 18

4. Create Bank Statement Cashflows....................................................................................................................... 19

5. Reconcile Bank Statements ................................................................................................................................. 19

6. Create Miscellaneous Transactions ..................................................................................................................... 19

6a.Complete Bank Transfers ................................................................................................................................... 20

7. Review Auto-Reconciliation Execution Report .................................................................................................... 20

8. Resolve Exceptions on the Auto-Reconciliation Execution Report ....................................................................... 20

9. Run Bank Statement Detail Report ..................................................................................................................... 20

10. Run Transactions Available for Reconciliation Report ...................................................................................... 20

11. Resolve Un-reconciled Statement Lines............................................................................................................. 20

12. Post to General Ledger ...................................................................................................................................... 21

13. Run the GL Reconciliation Report .................................................................................................................... 21

14. Run the Account Analysis Report for the General Ledger Cash Account ........................................................... 21

15. Review the Account Analysis Report ................................................................................................................. 21

16. Correct any Invalid Entries to the General Ledger Cash Account (Optional) ..................................................... 21

CHAPTER 4 ORACLE PAYABLES ........................................................................................................................................ 22

Business Requirements ............................................................................................................................................... 22

Procedures ................................................................................................................................................................. 22

1. Complete All Transactions for the Period Being Closed ...................................................................................... 22

2. Run the Payables Approval Process for All Invoices ............................................................................................ 23

3. Review and Resolve Amounts to Post to the General Ledger ............................................................................... 23

4. Reconcile Payments to Bank Statement Activity for the Period............................................................................ 24

5. Transfer All Approved Invoices and Payments to the General Ledger ................................................................. 24

6. Review the Payables to General Ledger Posting process After Completion. ......................................................... 25

7. Submit the Unaccounted Transactions Sweep Program ....................................................................................... 25

8. Close the Current Oracle Payables Period ........................................................................................................... 26

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9. Accrue Uninvoiced Receipts ............................................................................................................................... 26

10. Reconcile Oracle Payables Activity for the Period ............................................................................................. 26

11. Run Mass Additions Transfer to Oracle Assets.................................................................................................. 29

12. Open the Next Oracle Payables Period .............................................................................................................. 29

13. Run Reports for Tax Reporting Purposes (Optional) .......................................................................................... 29

14. Run the Key Indicators Report (Optional) ......................................................................................................... 30

CHAPTER 5 ORACLE PROJECTS ......................................................................................................................................... 32

Business Requirements ............................................................................................................................................... 32

Project Periods and General Ledger Periods ............................................................................................................ 32

Period Statuses ....................................................................................................................................................... 32

General Exception Handling at Period End ............................................................................................................. 33

Procedures ................................................................................................................................................................. 33

1. Change the Current Oracle Projects Period Status from Open to Pending Close .................................................. 33

2. Open the Next Oracle Projects Period ................................................................................................................. 33

3. Complete all Maintenance Activities ................................................................................................................... 33

4. Run Maintenance Processes ................................................................................................................................ 34

5. Complete All Transactions for the Period Being Closed ...................................................................................... 34

6. Run the Cost Distribution Processes .................................................................................................................... 35

6a. Run the Generate Cost Accounting Events Program .......................................................................................... 36

7. Interface Cost Transactions to Other Applications .............................................................................................. 36

8. Generate Draft Revenue for All Projects.............................................................................................................. 36

9. Review and Release Revenue for All Projects ...................................................................................................... 37

10. Run Generation Revenue Accounting Events Process ........................................................................................ 37

11. Run Create Accounting to Process Revenue Accounting Events ........................................................................ 37

12. Generate Invoices ............................................................................................................................................. 37

13. Transfer Invoices to Oracle Receivables ............................................................................................................ 37

14. Run Period Close Exceptions and Tieback Reports ............................................................................................ 38

15. Run Final Project Costing and Revenue Management Reports........................................................................... 38

16. Change the Current Oracle Projects Period Status from Pending Close to Closed .............................................. 38

17. Advance the PA Reporting Period (Optional) .................................................................................................... 39

18. Update Project Summary Amounts .................................................................................................................... 39

19. Restore Access to User Maintenance Activities ................................................................................................. 39

20. Reconcile Cost Distribution Lines with General Ledger (Optional) ................................................................... 39

21. Permanently Close the Oracle Projects Period (Optional) .................................................................................. 39

CHAPTER 6 ORACLE RECEIVABLES ................................................................................................................................... 40

Business Requirements ............................................................................................................................................... 40

Procedures ................................................................................................................................................................. 40

1. Complete All Transactions for the Period Being Closed ...................................................................................... 40

2. Reconcile Transaction Activity for the Period ..................................................................................................... 40

3. Reconcile Outstanding Customer Balances ......................................................................................................... 42

4. Review the Unapplied Receipts Register ............................................................................................................. 43

5. Reconcile Receipts .............................................................................................................................................. 43

6. Reconcile Receipts to Bank Statement Activity for the Period ............................................................................. 44

7. Post to the General Ledger .................................................................................................................................. 44

8. Reconcile the General Ledger Transfer Process ................................................................................................... 44

9. Reconcile the Journal Import Process .................................................................................................................. 45

10. Print Invoices .................................................................................................................................................... 45

11. Close the Current Oracle Receivables Period ..................................................................................................... 45

12. Review the Subledger Period Close Exceptions Report ...................................................................................... 46

13. Third Party Balances Report ............................................................................................................................. 46

14. Reconcile Posted Journal Entries ....................................................................................................................... 46

15. Review the Unposted Items Report .................................................................................................................... 46

16. Review Account Analysis Report ...................................................................................................................... 46

17. Open the Next Oracle Receivables Period.......................................................................................................... 47

18. Run Reports for Tax Reporting Purposes (Optional) .......................................................................................... 47

CHAPTER 7 ORACLE PURCHASING .................................................................................................................................... 48

Business Requirements ............................................................................................................................................... 48

Procedures ................................................................................................................................................................. 48

1. Complete All Transactions for the Period Being Closed ...................................................................................... 48

2. Review the Current and Future Commitments (Optional) .................................................................................... 48

3. Review the Outstanding and Overdue Purchase Orders (Optional) ...................................................................... 49

4. Follow Up Receipts - Check With Suppliers ........................................................................................................ 49

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5. Identify and Review Un-invoiced Receipts (Period-End Accruals) ....................................................................... 49

6. Follow Up on Outstanding Invoices .................................................................................................................... 49

7. Complete the Oracle Payables Period-End Process .............................................................................................. 49

8. Run the Receipt Accruals - Period End Process ................................................................................................... 50

9. Reconcile Accrual Accounts - Perpetual Accruals ............................................................................................... 50

10. Perform Year End Encumbrance Processing (Optional) .................................................................................... 53

11. Close the Current Oracle Purchasing Period...................................................................................................... 55

12. Open the Next Oracle Purchasing Period .......................................................................................................... 55

13. Run Standard Period End Reports (Optional) .................................................................................................... 55

CHAPTER 8 ORACLE INVENTORY-COST MANAGEMENT ..................................................................................................... 58

Business Requirements ............................................................................................................................................... 58

Procedures ................................................................................................................................................................. 58

1. Complete All Transactions for the Period Being Closed ...................................................................................... 58

2. Check Inventory and Work in Process Transaction Interfaces ............................................................................. 59

3. Check and fix pending Transactions ................................................................................................................... 59

4. Transfer Summary or Detail Transactions ........................................................................................................... 59

5. Open the Next Inventory Period .......................................................................................................................... 60

6. Close the current Oracle Payables and Oracle Purchasing Periods ....................................................................... 60

7. Close the Current Inventory Period ..................................................................................................................... 60

8. Run Standard Period-End Reports and reconcile the Perpetual Inventory with GL .............................................. 61

9. Validate the Work in Process Inventory .............................................................................................................. 62

CHAPTER 9 ORACLE ASSETS ............................................................................................................................................ 63

Business Requirements ............................................................................................................................................... 63

Procedures ................................................................................................................................................................. 63

1. Complete All Transactions for the Period Being Closed ...................................................................................... 63

2. Assign All Assets to Distribution Lines ............................................................................................................... 63

3. Run Calculate Gains and Losses (Optional) ........................................................................................................ 63

4. Run Depreciation ................................................................................................................................................ 64

5. Create Accounting .............................................................................................................................................. 64

6. Rollback Depreciation ......................................................................................................................................... 65

7. Create Deferred Depreciation Journal Entries (Optional) .................................................................................... 65

8. Depreciation Projections (Optional) .................................................................................................................... 65

9. Review and Post Journal Entries ......................................................................................................................... 66

10. Reconcile Oracle Assets to the General Ledger Using Reports ........................................................................... 66

11. Run Responsibility Reports (Optional) .............................................................................................................. 67

CHAPTER 10 ORACLE TREASURY...................................................................................................................................... 68

Business Requirements ............................................................................................................................................... 68

Procedures ................................................................................................................................................................. 68

1. Complete Daily Trading Activities ...................................................................................................................... 68

2. Perform Revaluation ........................................................................................................................................... 68

3. Generate Accruals and Amortization .................................................................................................................. 68

4. Generate Journals ............................................................................................................................................... 69

5. Transfer Journals to General Ledger ................................................................................................................... 69

CHAPTER 11 ORACLE GENERAL LEDGER .......................................................................................................................... 70

Business Requirements ............................................................................................................................................... 70

Period End Close .................................................................................................................................................... 70

Combined Basis Accounting ................................................................................................................................... 70

Procedures ................................................................................................................................................................. 71

1. Ensure the Next Accounting Period Status is set to Future Entry ......................................................................... 71

2. Complete Oracle Sub-ledger Interfaces to Oracle General Ledger ....................................................................... 71

3. Upload Journals from Web Applications Desktop Integrator (Web ADI) to Oracle General Ledger (Optional) ... 72

4. Complete Non-Oracle Sub-ledger Interfaces to Oracle General Ledger (Optional: only required if you want to post

from non-Oracle systems) ....................................................................................................................................... 72

5. Generate Reversal Journals (Optional) ................................................................................................................ 72

6. Generate Recurring Journals (Optional) .............................................................................................................. 72

7. Generate Mass Allocation Journals (Optional) .................................................................................................... 72

8. Review and Verify Journal Details of Unposted Journal Entries .......................................................................... 72

9. Post All Journal Batches ..................................................................................................................................... 73

9a. Run the Period Close Exceptions Report ........................................................................................................... 74

10. Run GL Trial Balances and Preliminary Financial Statement Generator Reports (FSGs) ................................... 74

11. Revalue Balances (Optional) ............................................................................................................................. 74

12. Translate Balances (Optional) ........................................................................................................................... 74

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13. Consolidate Ledgers (Optional) ......................................................................................................................... 75

13a. Reconcile Intercompany (optional) .................................................................................................................. 76

14. Review and Correct Balances (Perform Reconciliations) ................................................................................... 76

15. Enter Adjustments and / or Accruals and Post ................................................................................................... 77

16. Perform Final Adjustments ............................................................................................................................... 77

17. Close the Current Oracle General Ledger Period ............................................................................................... 78

18. Open the Next Oracle General Ledger Period .................................................................................................... 78

19. Run Financial Reports for the Closed Period ..................................................................................................... 78

20. Run Reports for Tax Reporting Purposes (Optional) .......................................................................................... 78

21. Perform Encumbrance Year End Procedures (Optional) .................................................................................... 79

CHAPTER 12 PERIOD END PROCESSING - SUMMARY .......................................................................................................... 81

APPENDIX: MORE INFORMATION ...................................................................................................................................... 87

Related My Oracle Support Information ..................................................................................................................... 87

CHANGE LOG .................................................................................................................................................................. 88

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Chapter 1 SLA and Period End Close dependencies

Sub Ledger Accounting (SLA) – Business Process

The new Subledger Accounting architecture in Release 12 provides a common

repository of all your accounting information. Whenever you want to account for your

subledger transactions, online or as a background batch process, the accounting is

generated by Subledger Accounting.

Subledger Accounting helps to maintain a common link between General Ledger (GL)

balances and underlying transactions automatically, for internal and external audit

purposes, and for ease of drilldown.

Subledger Accounting provides a comprehensive view of all subledger accounting data.

It behaves like a detailed version of your general ledger and provides a rich store of

information for reporting and analysis.

• It allows your general ledger to be free of extraneous data, so that you can maintain a

simple chart of accounts and store only what is needed for GL reporting and analysis.

• The moment you need to access more detailed information, you can go directly to

Subledger Accounting to see the detail from all transaction sources that feed the GL

account balance without having to go back to multiple source systems and

applications.

• Just as Oracle General Ledger stores balances and journals, Subledger Accounting

stores subledger balances and subledger journals for all of your subledgers that require

accounting.

Subledger Accounting offers a new model between the subledgers and GL.

Sub Ledger Accounting (SLA) – Process Change

Due to the impact of the Subledger Accounting Architecture the close process has

changed between Release 11i and Release 12.

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In Release 11i the transactions and distributions represented the accounting. In Release

12 however, distributions on transactions in subledgers are considered to be the

default accounting and should therefore not be used for reconciliation purposes. The

reason is that subledger accounting enables you to change the accounting for

transactions so it is different from the default accounting. Therefore, the subledger

accounting becomes the single source of truth for accounting reconciliations.

In Release 11i, when you close your periods in each of the subledgers, Oracle General

Ledger will automatically create the balancing lines for journals posted to General

Ledger. This changes in Release 12 as subledger accounting creates the balancing

lines at the time you account for the subledger transactions.

The subledger accounting journal represents your REAL accounting and the balancing

lines are created as part of these subledger accounting journals.

When you close a period in Release 12, you‟re actually closing subledger accounting.

The journals can then be posted to the general ledger to update the GL balances.

Differences between R11i and R12

Subledger Accounting (SLA) – Reconciliation

From a reconciliation perspective the picture below shows what has been changed

between R11i and R12. In Release 11i, you reconciled transactions and distributions

to the general ledger through transactional reports. In the accounting reports in Release

11i, the balances are displayed but not the transactional information.

In Release 12, there is no reason to reconcile distributions on transactions to the

general ledger. You can still reconcile transaction reports to accounting reports. The

new accounting reports in Release 12 now also contain more comprehensive

information - not just on balances but also on suppliers, customers and transactions.

The point to note is that when you do account balance reconciliation, you should

ignore distributions in Release 12, especially if you have altered your subledger

accounting rules.

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Reconciliation between R11i and R12

Subledger Accounting (SLA) Close Process – General Steps

Here are some guidelines, from a general perspective, how you can perform the close

process for every subledger:

a) Complete transactions

b) Create accounting

c) Reconcile transactions

d) Post to General Ledger

e) Reconcile accounting

f) Close period

Step b), Create Accounting, is a new step in Release 12, as it is an SLA feature. The

accounting can be created immediately online, or can be run as a process in the

background e.g. as a batch job at a time that matches your business needs.

The important thing to note, is that the accounting is not the distribution on the

transaction. The final accounting by SLA could result in different accounting entries

being generated based on the accounting rules you have configured. Therefore, you

need to ensure that all your accounting for your transactions is created before you post

to General Ledger, in order to update the balances correctly.

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General – Period End Close Dependencies

Before you start with the Period-End process you have to know what the dependencies

are between the various modules as described in this document.

The diagram above shows the dependencies between some of the main Financials

products and a couple of supply chain products.

For example, you have to close Oracle Payables before you close Oracle Purchasing to

account for purchasing accruals at period end. You also need to close Oracle Payables

before you close Oracle Inventory and Oracle Assets.

You actually have to close Oracle Cash Management before you close Oracle

Receivables, as bank reconciliation in Cash Management will create miscellaneous

receipts in Oracle Receivables and so forth. Finally, you close all of your subledgers

before you close General Ledger.

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Chapter 2 Oracle Order Management

This chapter describes the procedures for performing period-end processing in Oracle

Order Management Release 12.

Business Requirements

Open Sales Orders should be reviewed and, where possible, appropriate actions should

be undertaken to finalize the Order Workflows and close these Sales Orders.

Procedures

The following steps are taken in performing period-end processing for Oracle Order

Management.

1. Complete All Transactions for the Period Being Closed

Ensure that all transactions have been entered for the period being closed

Enter and book all orders

Schedule orders

Enter and book return material authorizations

Run the Generate Pre-billing Acceptance Program for Pre-billing, Implicit Acceptance

Confirm shipments and optionally, the creation of install base entries for shipments

Confirm OM-shipping transaction for the period

Sales order acknowledgments

Cancel backordered included items

Respond to workflow approval notifications

Confirm that invoice interface (OM-> AR interface) has been completed

Optionally, confirm that service contracts for warranties and extended warranties have

been created

Close orders

* Closing orders that are complete enhances performance, since many programs,

windows and report queries retrieve open orders only. Orders marked as closed are not

selected, increasing system speed and efficiency. Closed orders are excluded from

many of the standard reports available in Order Management, so reporting can be

limited only to the active orders.

* Close lines and close orders are implemented using workflow. Order Management

provides seeded close line and close order workflow sub-processes to close the order

header and line, respectively. These processes, when included in the order header or

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line workflow, close the status of the eligible order or lines. Once an order is closed, no

lines can be added or changed.

* The order header close order process checks at the end of every month to see if all the

lines associated with it are closed. It closes the order header if it finds that all the lines

are closed.

Attention: Be sure to include the standard sub-processes of close line

and close order at the end of all your line and order flows to ensure

that your orders and returns close once all prerequisites have been met.

Close Order Lines

* An order line is eligible to close when it completes all of the line-level activities

within the workflow process. Order lines can close independent of each other. Once an

order line is closed, no changes can be made to any fields except the descriptive

flexfield, for which you can define processing constraints.

Holds Effect on Eligible Lines

* The close order and close line workflow activities will close order or lines if only

generic holds are present .If orders or lines have activity specific holds present, they

will not be closed by workflow activity.

Attention: If MOAC is enabled for the Order Management

responsibility, perform the above tasks for each operating unit.

2. Ensure all Interfaces are Completed for the Period (Optional)

Ensure that all interfaces for the current period have been processed:

Order Import from External Order Systems.

* If you are using external order processing systems for data entry of orders, use the

Order Import to update Oracle Order Management from your external systems.

Alternatively, if you are using the Order Management public API to create orders,

ensure that the processes calling the public API have completed.

* Use the Order Import Correction window to examine the orders and optionally

correct data if it fails the import process. Use the Error Message window to determine

if your data failed to import.

Order Import from Oracle Purchasing for Internal Orders.

If you are using Oracle Purchasing to process Internal Purchase Requisitions, the

following processes need to be completed:

a) Enter and approve all internal purchase requisitions in Oracle Purchasing.

b) Run the Create Internal Sales Orders Process in Oracle Purchasing for all

requisitions within the current period.

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Use the Create Internal Sales Orders process to send requisition information from

approved, inventory-sourced requisition lines to the Order Management interface

tables. Then, the Order Import process is run from within Order Management to

generate the internal sales orders. The Create Internal Sales Orders and Order Import

processes can be scheduled to run automatically at specified intervals.

c) Run Order Import to create internal sales orders from internal requisitions.

d) Run the Internal Order and Purchasing Requisition Discrepancy Report which

displays the differences between the purchasing requisition entered and the actual items

ordered during order entry.

This report includes all open and closed orders, order numbers, order date ranges,

order types, requisition numbers, items, ship to information, scheduled dates, and

internal requisition and internal sales order hold discrepancies.

e) Use the Order Import Correction window to examine the orders and optionally

correct data if it fails the import process.

Use the Error Message window to determine if your data failed to import.

f) Invoice Interface / AutoInvoice, for external orders. Internal orders do not go

through the Invoice interface/ AutoInvoice process.

This process will ensure all shipped sales order information is transferred to Oracle

Receivables when it reaches the appropriate point in the order workflow. The

AutoInvoice Process updates Oracle Receivables for invoice and revenue information,

as well as credit memos and credits on account created from returns.

Attention: This process is only applicable for Order Workflow Definitions that

include the Invoice Interface or Invoice Line processes.

Attention: Order Management does not process internal sales order lines for the

Invoice Interface, even if the Invoice Interface is an action in the order

Workflow Definitions for the Internal Sales Order transaction type.

3. Review Open Orders and Check the Workflow Status

Use the Sales Orders Workbench to review open orders using the Advanced Tabbed

Region to specify controls such as whether to find closed orders/lines and cancelled

orders/lines.

The Sales Orders window displays the order header status in the main tab of the Order

Information tabbed region. The order line status is displayed in the main tab of the

Line Items tabbed region.

The Workflow Status option on the Sales Orders window Tools menu launches the

Workflow Status page. The window shows in tabular format all the activities an order

header or line has completed and the corresponding results.

From the status page, you can access the Workflow monitor to see the order or line

status in a more graphical format. This is available through the View Diagram button.

4. Review Held Orders

Run the following reports to assist with reviewing sales orders on hold:

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a) Orders on Credit Check Hold Report

The Orders on Credit Check Hold Report identifies all of the credit holds currently

outstanding for a customer within a date range, or identifies why a particular order is

on hold. Order Management allows you to perform a credit check on customer orders

and automatically places orders on hold that violate your credit checking rules. This

report is automatically sorted by customer, currency code, credit check rule, and order

number.

All balances are calculated as they are using the online credit check rule, including the

factor for shipments and receivables for a certain number of days.

b) Hold Source Activity Report

The Hold Source Activity Report reviews holds placed and removed under a hold

source during the time period you specify. This report indicates the date and the type of

activity for each hold transaction.

c) Outstanding Holds Report

The Outstanding Holds Report reviews order holds for the customer or customers you

choose. This report displays the order number, order date, ordered items, and order

amount for each order line on hold for each customer you select. It is automatically

sorted by customer, order number, order line, and then order line detail.

5. Review Customer Acceptances (Optional)

In Pre-Billing Customer Acceptance, once the goods are accepted, invoicing is carried

out. In Post-Billing Acceptance, the revenue recognition process is deferred and linked

to customers accepting the shipped goods.

6. Review Discounts

It is recommended that you review discounts processed as part of the order process to

ensure appropriate discount policies have been followed, and exceptions are clearly

identified and reviewed and/or followed up. Use the following reports:

a) Order Discount Detail Report

The Order Discount Detail Report reviews discounts applied to orders by order

line detail. This report provides detailed line pricing information, including price

list price, selling price, and discount information.

b) Order Discount Summary Report

The Order Discount Summary Report reviews discounts applied to orders. This

report provides order level pricing information, including agreement, salesperson

and total order discount.

7. Review Backorders

Review backlogs and backorders to ensure that these items are current. If necessary,

process cancellations for items/lines which are no longer required.

a) Backorder Detail Report

The Backorder Detail Report reviews all customer orders that have been backordered.

This report provides details for each order including customer name, order number,

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order type of each order, all backordered items and their appropriate line numbers,

total quantity both ordered and backordered, and monetary amounts of both ordered

and backordered quantities.

b) Backorder Summary Report

The Backorder Summary Report lists all unshipped orders. This report includes only

open orders in an order cycle that includes pick release. It displays order information

such as order number, customer name and number, order type, purchase order, order

date, last shipped date, and the monetary amounts ordered, shipped and outstanding.

This report also includes total amounts for customers and currencies. These amounts

involve totals for shippable items only.

8. Review and Correct Order Exceptions

The following reports should be reviewed, and exceptions corrected before completing

the Order Management/Receivables period end:

a) Unbooked Orders Report

Use this report to review orders entered but not booked. They may indicate incomplete

processing, which needs to be corrected, completed, or deleted as appropriate.

b) Retry Activities in Error

There are cases when retrying a workflow activity in error will not resolve the

problem. When Exception Management encounters this situation, the workflow activity

is set to „notified‟ instead of being retried.

c) Sales Order Workflow Status Report

The Sales Order Workflow Status Report enables Order Management users to locate

orders that are not progressing through associated workflows as expected.

9. Reconcile to Oracle Inventory

Run the following reports for reconciliation with Oracle Inventory:

a) Backorder Detail Report

b) Review Backorders (Already discussed under section 7.)

c) Returns by Reason Report

The Returns by Reason Report reviews all return material authorizations for various

return reasons. Order Management automatically sorts this report by currency, return

reason, and then item.

10. Create Service Contracts (Optional)

Run the Service Contracts Order Processing Concurrent request to create service

contracts for extended warranties.

11. Reconcile to Oracle Receivables (Optional)

Run the following reports to assist in reconciliation of orders invoiced in the period:

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a) Commercial Invoice (for all ship dates within the current AR period)

The Commercial Invoice Report lists all confirmed shipped items in a delivery. If only

a delivery name is specified when defining the parameters of this report, Shipping

Execution prints one commercial invoice per delivery within the trip.

b) Order/Invoice Detail Report

The Order/Invoice Detail Report reviews detailed invoice information for orders that

have invoiced. A variety of parameters can be used to print the invoice information for

a specific order or group of orders. If there are no invoices for a particular order that

meets the parameter criteria, Order Management prints in the report that no invoices

exist for that order.

12. Run Standard Period End Reports

The following reports should be run each period:

a) Cancelled Orders Report

The Cancelled Orders Report reviews all orders that have been cancelled. This report

provides a summary of each cancelled order, including order number, customer name,

line number and item, the date and reason the order or order line was cancelled, the

quantity ordered and the quantity cancelled, and who cancelled the order.

This report can be used to report total amounts cancelled in a specified time-frame, and

allows evaluation of the most common cancellation reasons, review cancellations by

salesperson, or review cancellations by customers.

b) Salesperson Order Summary Report

The Salesperson Order Summary Report reviews orders for one or more salespeople.

This report displays the order and each order line associated with each salesperson.

Salespeople can use this report to see their current outstanding orders and their status.

This report shows open orders, quantity ordered, shipped, cancelled, and invoiced and

their potential commission.

The report displays all open and closed orders for a salesperson, customer or customer

number, agreements, order numbers, order date ranges, order types, line type, and

detailed sales credit information for lines in a selected range.

c) Customer Acceptance Report

Generate Pre-billing Acceptance Program for Pre-billing, Implicit Acceptance.

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Chapter 3 Oracle Cash Management

This chapter describes the procedures for performing period-end processing in Oracle

Cash Management Release 12.

Business Requirements

Oracle Cash Management is an enterprise cash management solution that helps you

effectively manage and control the cash cycle. It provides comprehensive bank

reconciliation, bank, bank branches & internal bank accounts setup, intra-bank

account transfers, cash pooling and flexible cash forecasting.

The Bank Reconciliation process enables the verification of entries on the Bank

Statement by reconciling that information with system transactions in Oracle Payables,

Oracle Receivables and Oracle General Ledger.

During the Bank Reconciliation process miscellaneous transactions can be created for

bank-originated entries, such as bank charges and interest.

Cash forecasting is a planning tool that helps anticipate the flow of cash in and out of

the enterprise, allowing the projection of cash needs and evaluation of the company's

liquidity position.

Procedures

The following steps are taken in performing period-end processing for Oracle Cash

Management.

1. Complete Daily Cash Management Activities

Complete bank account transfers for the day, validate them, if necessary, and send

payment instructions to the bank.

2. Load Bank Statements

Detailed information from each bank statement, including bank account information,

deposits received by the bank, and checks cleared needs to be entered into Cash

Management. Bank statements can be either manually entered or loaded electronically

from information received directly from your bank.

For organizations with high transaction volumes bank statements should be loaded and

reconciled on a daily basis.

Refer to “Entering Bank Statements Manually” and “Loading Bank Statement Open

Interface” in the Oracle Cash Management User Guide.

3. Generate Sweep Transactions

If you have target balance or zero balance accounts (ZBA) with your banks, you can

automatically generate system transactions to match banking information once the

bank posts the sweeps. Once the bank statements are imported, run the Sweep

Transaction Generation concurrent program. The program will scan the bank statement

for sweep lines and, based on the cash pool setup in the system, create sweep

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transactions between your internal bank accounts, which can be accounted for and

subsequently reconciled.

4. Create Bank Statement Cashflows

If you have recurring items such as bank fees and interest appear on your bank

statement, you can use the Bank Statement Cashflow Creation program to create

system transactions (cash flows) to match banking information.

Once the bank statements are imported, run the Bank Statement Creation concurrent

program. This program will scan the bank statement for specific codes, as defined in

the Bank Statement Cashflow Mapping, and create cashflows, which can be accounted

for and subsequently reconciled.

5. Reconcile Bank Statements

Once detailed bank statement information has been entered into Cash Management, the

information must be reconciled with the subledger transactions.

Cash Management provides two methods to undertake reconciliations:

a) Automatic

Bank statement details are automatically matched and reconciled with subledger

transactions. This method is ideally suited for bank accounts which have a high volume

of transactions.

Refer to “Reconciling Bank Statements Automatically” in the Oracle Cash

Management User Guide.

b) Manual

This method requires a manual match of bank statement details with subledger

transactions. This method is ideally suited to reconciling bank accounts which have a

small volume of monthly transactions. The manual reconciliation method can also be

used to reconcile any bank statement details, which could not be reconciled

automatically.

Refer to “Reconciling Bank Statements Manually” in the Oracle Cash Management

User Guide.

6. Create Miscellaneous Transactions

During the reconciliation process, miscellaneous transactions for bank-originated

entries, such as bank charges and errors can be created. Oracle Payables payments or

Oracle Receivables receipts can also be manually created.

Note: The automatic reconciliation process can be set up to create miscellaneous

transactions automatically.

Attention: If you create transactions during the reconciliation process, you will

need to re-run the „Create Accounting‟ routine from Oracle Receivables to

ensure all information is transferred to the General Ledger.

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6a.Complete Bank Transfers

Complete the bank account transfer whether it is manual or automatic and record the

validation if required before completing the transfer.

7. Review Auto-Reconciliation Execution Report

Once the reconciliation process has been completed, reviewing the reconciliation

results is recommended.

This report shows import and reconciliation errors that occurred when running the

Auto-Reconciliation program. Cash Management automatically produces this report

during the automatic reconciliation process. You may also request it as needed from

the Submit Request window.

This report includes either statement import errors, which prevented the automatic

loading of your bank statement, or your reconciliation exceptions found during the

automatic reconciliation process.

This report lists the details of any miscellaneous transactions that were created in

Receivables during the automatic reconciliation process.

8. Resolve Exceptions on the Auto-Reconciliation Execution Report

Resolve the exceptions on the Auto-Reconciliation Execution report by either re-

running the import process or by manually reconciling the exceptions.

9. Run Bank Statement Detail Report

This report shows statement and transaction information for a specific bank account

statement, including bank statement header information, statement line detail, and

reconciled transaction detail.

This report lists any un-reconciled transactions separately with their current status, and

the statement totals for each type of transaction, including the amount entered,

reconciled, un-reconciled, over-reconciled and under-reconciled, and gives you the

option to select only un-reconciled statement lines.

10. Run Transactions Available for Reconciliation Report

This report shows all transactions available for reconciliation for a specific bank

account. It lists detailed transaction information for your Available Receipts, Available

Payment, and Available Journal Entries for reconciliation. Detailed information

includes the Customer, Supplier or Batch Name, Transaction Date, Payment Method,

Transaction Number, Currency, and Amount.

This report only lists void payments if the Show Void Payments option on the Systems

Parameters window is checked. It does not list reversed receipts due to user error nor

does it list the associated original receipts that were not reconciled. This report groups

transactions by status so that void or reversed transactions are separate from other

transactions.

11. Resolve Un-reconciled Statement Lines

Resolve the un-reconciled statement lines by manually reconciling the statement lines

to the available transactions.

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12. Post to General Ledger

Create journal entries for eligible accounting events generated by Bank Account

Transfers and Bank Statement Cash Flows by submitting "Create Accounting"

concurrent program. The program creates and optionally transfers and posts journal

entries to General Ledger. If you do not transfer the journals to General Ledger

immediately, you can later submit the "Transfer Journal Entries to GL" concurrent

program.

Attention: Final journal entries cannot be further modified in Cash Management. Please make sure you are satisfied with the draft journal entries before creating final accounting. In addition to creating final accounting entries, the program can be run in a draft mode, in which case draft journal entries will be created. Such journals cannot be transferred or posted to General Ledger.

13. Run the GL Reconciliation Report

Use this report to reconcile the General Ledger cash account to a bank statement

balance.

This report lists a balance and an adjusted balance for the bank statement. It also lists

a separate adjustment amount for un-reconciled receipts, payments, and journal entries,

as well as bank errors.

Warning: To ensure that this report is accurate, you must first perform these

tasks:

* Reconcile all statements in Cash Management.

* Transfer journal entry transactions from Oracle Payables and Oracle

Receivables to your General Ledger.

* Post journals in General Ledger, if transfer from sub-ledgers was not in

FINAL POST mode.

14. Run the Account Analysis Report for the General Ledger Cash Account

Run the Account Analysis Report from General Ledger for the General Ledger Cash

Account Flexfield and sort by Source.

15. Review the Account Analysis Report

Review the Account Analysis Report to ensure that only bank account related

transactions have been posted to the General Ledger Cash Account by checking the

Source of the transactions. Valid sources will include Payables and Receivables.

Transactions entered directly via General Ledger will have a Source of Manual or

possibly Spreadsheet if Web Applications Desktop Integrator (Web ADI) is used.

16. Correct any Invalid Entries to the General Ledger Cash Account (Optional)

Reverse or amend any journals incorrectly posted to the General Ledger Cash Account,

which were highlighted during the review of the Account Analysis Report.

To prevent invalid journal entries to the General Ledger Cash Account enable security

rules appropriately.

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Chapter 4 Oracle Payables

This chapter describes the procedures for performing period-end processing in Oracle

Payables Release 12.

Business Requirements

Accounts payable activity must be reconciled for the accounting period that is to be

closed. The following steps are taken in performing period-end processing for Oracle

Payables.

The posting level for Oracle Payables must be determined when planning period-end

procedures. Where detail level accounting transactions are required to be posted to the

General Ledger using sub-ledger accounting (hereafter referred to as SLA), there may

be technical constraints involved, relating to the physical data storage volume, and

posting and report processing speed degradation caused by the sheer volume of posted

transactions. In Release 12 the detailed level of posting can be controlled by GL

summarize options and also at SLA journal line type level. Subledger Accounting can

contain all of the detailed subledger accounting level analysis, so that the general ledger

can remain “thin”. Then, Subledger Accounting online inquiry and BI Publisher

reports can be utilized to report and analyze balances, and their transactions.

Procedures

1. Complete All Transactions for the Period Being Closed

Ensure that all transactions have been entered for the period being closed.

Completing all transactions for Oracle Payables:

* Complete Invoices and Credits

* Complete Prepayments

* Complete Expense Reports

* Complete Invoice Import

* Complete Payments

If you import transactions from an external system, or you are using Internet Expenses

or Xpense Xpress, ensure you have imported all transactions, and reviewed all audit

trails for completeness.

One consideration for Accounts Payable where there are multiple operating units

within the same ledger is that all operating units must be ready to close at the same

time. All of the operating units that share a ledger also share the same period statuses.

When you update the period status to „open‟ in one operating unit, that period is

opened for all operating units within the ledger.

When you attempt to update the period status to „closed‟ in one operating unit, the

system checks for unposted transactions in all operating units within the ledger. If

there are unposted transactions in any of the operating units, the system asks you to

resolve the un-posted transactions for those operating units before it allows you to

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close the period for the ledger. If Multi-org Access Control is implemented, period

closing can be performed across OU‟s from a single responsibility, through one OU at

a time.

2. Run the Payables Approval Process for All Invoices

Run the Payables Approval process to approve all unapproved invoices and invoice

lines in the system, so that they can be paid by Oracle Payments and posted to the

general ledger.

3. Review and Resolve Amounts to Post to the General Ledger

a) Review the Invoice on Hold Report

This report enables review of any holds currently applied to invoices that would

prevent the payment and/or posting of these invoices. The report details all invoices

that Oracle Payables cannot select for posting and therefore cannot create journal

entries.

Where possible, resolve any identified holds which will prevent posting to the general

ledger, and then re-run the Payables Approval process to approve these invoices.

b) Review the Journal Entries Report

This report enables review and analysis of accounting entries in the Payables

subledger, as accounted by SLA. Using the report parameters, you can produce a

detailed or summary listing of the accounting information you want to review. This

report is owned by SLA.

The report also lists, in detail, transactions that have been accounted with error and all

entries that could not be transferred to the general ledger. When a transaction is

accounted with errors, review the details and make necessary changes.

By altering the parameters, the report also lists those transactions which have been

posted in the general ledger, and those which have not been posted but have been

accounted.

SLA groups the report by ledger, ledger currency, source, category, and event class.

Data is then sorted by accounting date, event type, supplier name, document number,

and voucher number.

c) Review the Unaccounted Transactions Report

This report enables review of all unaccounted invoice and payment transactions and a

view of the reason that Payables cannot account for a transaction. Accounts Payable

sorts the report by transaction type (invoice or payment), exception, supplier,

transaction currency, and transaction number.

Run this report after you have run the Create Accounting Process. The report will then

show only transactions that had problems that prevented accounting. You can then

correct the problems and resubmit the accounting process.

Note that this report does not include invoices that have no distributions.

d) Optionally run a Payment Process Request at the month end

By running a month end Payment Process request, you may create a payment for as

many due invoices as possible.

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e) Confirm all Payment Instructions

Run the Payment Instruction Register for the period that is to be closed, or finalize any

outstanding payments. Use Oracle Payments to confirm any payment instructions.

Check the status of the Payment Process Request/Payments/Payment Instructions to

ensure that all payments have been processed.

The Payment Instruction Register lists each payment created for a payment process

profile or for a manual payment. Actual payments can be compared against this

register to verify that Oracle Payables/Oracle Payments has recorded payments

correctly. The report lists each payment in a payment process request, including setup

and overflow payment documents, in ascending order, by payment number. This report

is automatically submitted when payment instructions are being created and can also

be submitted from the standard report submission (SRS) screen.

Attention: Oracle Payables prevents the closing of a period in which all

payments have not been confirmed.

f) Optionally run the Payments Register

The Payment Register details payments printed in a particular accounting period. This

report can be used to review payment activity for each bank account used during the

specified time period.

Warning: The report total only shows the net (less discounts) payment amount,

whereas the Posted Payment Register total is the total payment amount,

including discounts. If only verifying report totals, these two reports would not

balance. Therefore it is necessary to subtract the „Discounts Taken‟ from the

Posted Payment Register report total and then compare this calculated amount

to the total displayed on the Payments Register Report.

4. Reconcile Payments to Bank Statement Activity for the Period

Refer to Chapter 3 Period-End Procedures for Oracle Cash Management.

5. Transfer All Approved Invoices and Payments to the General Ledger

Release 12 provides 3 modes of accounting: Final, Final Post and Draft. The

transactions that have been accounted in Final Post have already been transferred to,

and posted in the general ledger. The transactions that have been accounted in the Final

Mode have been transferred to GL or can still be within the subledger based on the

parameter Transfer to General Ledger (either 'Yes or 'No') in the Create Accounting

program.

When accounting mode is Final and transfer to GL is set to „No‟ then, “Transfer

Journal Entries to GL” program needs to be run from the Standard Report Submission

(SRS) window. Please review the “Transfer Journal Entries to GL” report generated

by this program; make sure there are no errors reported on this report.

The transactions in draft accounting mode can be included on accounting reports but

cannot be transferred to the general ledger. A draft entry does not update balances and

does not reserve funds.

SLA creates detail or summary journal entries for all eligible events when you post.

The journal entries are posted in Oracle General Ledger to update account balances.

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Invoice journal entries debit the expense or other account entered on an invoice

distribution line, and credit the liability account specified on the invoice, unless you

have modified the SLA rules to create alternative accounting entries to address your

specific business needs.

Payment journal entries debit the liability account and credit the cash account of the

bank account used to pay an invoice.

The Create Accounting process transfers data to the General Ledger tables, creating

journal entries for these invoice and payment transactions. Posting is determined by the

parameter „Post in GL‟ which is set during Create Accounting.

Attention: The generated journal batch needs to be posted from within Oracle

General Ledger if the mode of accounting was „Final‟, Transfer to General

Ledger was „Yes‟ and Post in GL was set to „No‟.

The journal batch will be automatically posted in General Ledger if the mode of

accounting was „FINAL‟ and Post in GL was set to „Yes‟.

6. Review the Payables to General Ledger Posting process After Completion.

The following reports can be run to review the invoices and payments that were posted

to Oracle General Ledger, from Oracle Payables, for the period that is to be closed, i.e.

the current accounting period.

a) The Subledger Accounting Program Report generated by the Create Accounting

program.

This report provides either the summary or details (dependent on the parameters

provided during Create Accounting program) of the subledger journal entries created

as a result of running “Create Accounting Program”. This report also provides any

errors that may have occurred during generation of the journal entries.

b) The Posted Invoices Register

This report is used to review invoices for which information has been posted to Oracle

General Ledger to create journal entries, and can be used to verify that the total invoice

amount equals the total invoice distribution amount. The report lists each Accounts

Payable Liability Accounting Flexfield and the invoices posted to the account.

c) The Posted Payments Register

This report is used to review the payments posted to Oracle General Ledger during a

particular accounting period, and can be used to review the payment activity for each

bank account used during that period.

7. Submit the Unaccounted Transactions Sweep Program

The Unaccounted Transactions Sweep Program transfers unaccounted transactions

from one accounting period to another. Because you cannot close a Payables period

that has unaccounted transactions in it, if your accounting practices permit it, you

might want to use this program to change the accounting date of the transactions to the

next open period. For example, you have invoices for which you cannot resolve holds

before the close, and your accounting practices allow you to change invoice

distribution GL dates, you can submit this program to change invoice distribution GL

dates to the first day of the next open period so you can close the current period.

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The „Unaccounted Transactions Sweep Program‟ will not roll forward accounted

transactions, or accounted transactions with errors. To create successful accounting

entries for accounted transactions with errors, correct any accounting errors and

resubmit the Create Accounting Process.

The program transfers unaccounted transactions to the period you specify by updating

the GL dates to the first day of the new period. You can then close the current

accounting period in Oracle Payables.

To submit the Unaccounted Transactions Sweep Program:

1. In the Control Payables Periods window if you try to close a period that has

exceptions then the system enables the Exceptions button.

2. Choose the Exceptions button in the Control Payables Periods window. Payables

opens a message window. From the window you can choose the following buttons:

• Review (This submits the Period Close Exceptions Report.)

• Sweep

3. Choose the Sweep button. Payables opens the Sweep to Period window. In the

Sweep to Period field, Payables provides the next open period. You can accept this

default or enter another open period.

4. Choose the Submit button to submit the Unaccounted Transactions Sweep Program.

Payables automatically produces the Unaccounted Transactions Sweep report.

8. Close the Current Oracle Payables Period

Close the accounting period by using the Control Payables Periods window to set the

Period Status to „closed‟. This process automatically submits the Subledger Period

Close Exceptions Report.

The Subledger Period Close Exceptions Report lists all accounting events and journal

entries that fail period close validation. It is automatically submitted by General

Ledger when closing a GL period if there are unprocessed accounting events or un-

transferred journal entries.

You can also generate the Subledger Period Close Exceptions Report through a

concurrent request as follows:

* For the application associated with the responsibility

* For all applications in the General Ledger responsibility

9. Accrue Uninvoiced Receipts

(Refer to Chapter 7 Period-End Procedures for Oracle Purchasing)

10. Reconcile Oracle Payables Activity for the Period

a) Run the Open Account AP Balance Listing Report (Accounts Payable Trial

Balance*)

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This report basically generates the payables trial balance that can be used for

reconciliation of the total accounts payable liabilities in Oracle Payables, with the

Oracle General Ledger Creditors Control Account, for a specific accounting period.

The Open Account AP Balance Listing is based on a Subledger Accounting extract

and enables you to identify the open Accounts Payable transactions that make up each

Accounts Payable balance.

*Accounts Payable Trial Balance report name.

Please refer to the My Oracle Support note # 604739.1

and 553484.1 to understand which specific report is

applicable in your case. This report can be used to

generate payables trial balance.

In R12, there are 4 Concurrent Programs related to the trial balance:

1. Report Name = "Accounts Payable Trial Balance (Old) "

Short Name = APXTRBAL

This is the R11i Accounts Payable Trial Balance; it should be disabled in R12.

2. Report Name = "Accounts Payable Trial Balance"

Short Name = APXTRBAL

This is the R12 Accounts Payable Trial Balance; this is the correct report name to run

if Trial Balance Remodel Phase 4 or higher has been applied. This report is a modified

version of the Open Account Balance Listing report.

3. Report Name = "Open Account Balance Listing"

Short Name = XLATBRPT

This is a Subledger Accounting report. This report should NOT be used for Payables.

Instead, use the applicable Payables modified version of the report.

4. Report Name = "Open Account AP Balances Listing"

Short Name = XLAAPRPT

This is the subledger Open Account Balance Listing report modified for Payables and

should be used as the Trial Balance.

Please refer to the My Oracle Support note # 553484.1 for more details on this report.

The report provides details of the outstanding accounts payable liability for the

organization.

To obtain the most up-to-date trial balance for a given period, journal entries should be

posted for the invoice and payment activity for the period, prior to running the report.

For reconciliation of Oracle Payables and Oracle General Ledger when posting is only

performed at period end, the following reconciliation method can be used:

Use the following reports to reconcile your transferred invoices and payments to ensure

that your Trial Balance accurately reflects your accounts payable liability:

Open Account AP Balance Listing Report or Accounts Payable Trial Balance (for last

day of prior period). This is run to generate trail balance as of last day of prior period.

Payables Posted Invoice Register - Invoice journals must be posted in general ledger to

appear on this report.

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Payables Posted Payment Register - Payment journals must be posted in general ledger

to appear on this report.

Open Account AP Balance Listing Report or Accounts Payable Trial Balance (for last

day of current period). This is run to generate trial balance as of last day of current

period)

This balancing process will help you ensure that all liabilities recorded in Payables are

reflected in the general ledger AP liability accounts. If the balance reported by the

Open Account AP Balances Report (or Accounts Payable Trial Balance) does not

equal the balance in the AP liability account, you can use the Account Analysis report

and the General Ledger reports to determine what journals are being posted to that

account. Before running your reports, run the Transfer Journal Entries to GL Program

for all transactions in the period that you are reconciling. Also, be sure to post the

transactions in the general ledger.

Attention: Typical AP/GL Reconciliation Example

31st March Open Account AP Balances Report (or Accounts Payable Trial

Balance)

+ April Payables Posted Invoice Register

–April Payables Posted Payment Register

–- 30th

April, Open Account AP Balances Report (or Accounts Payable Trial

Balance)

= 0

Attention: When posting to the General Ledger is performed multiple times

throughout each accounting period, the Posted Invoices Register and Posted

Payments Register reports must be run after each posting run, for

reconciliation of Oracle Payables liabilities with Oracle General Ledger‟s Trade

Creditor Control Account.

Attention: A comparison between the accounts in payables with the accounts in

GL might not match, as SLA has the ability to override the accounting. For

more information refer to „SLA Implementation Guide‟.

b) Run Third Party Balances Report (Optional)

This report is used to display balance and account activity information for

suppliers and customers. It retrieves the following information:

* Third party balances for third party control accounts

* Subledger journal entry lines that add up to the total period activity for each

control account, third party, and third party site

* Third party and third party site information

* User transaction identifiers for the associated event

The balances in this report can be compared with the general ledger balances for

the same control accounts to reconcile.

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c) Submit and review Account Analysis Report

The Account Analysis Report provides drill-down information about the movement

on a particular account for a period or range of periods. It only includes journal

entries transferred to and posted to general ledger. Review this report.

Optionally compare it with „Third Party Balances‟ report (if applicable). This

report is owned by SLA.

Note: To avoid duplication with subledger journal entries, general ledger journal

entries imported from SLA are not included in the report.

11. Run Mass Additions Transfer to Oracle Assets

After you have completed all Payables transaction entries, and confirmed all invoice

holds, and carry forwards, submit the Mass Additions Create program to transfer

capital invoice line distributions from Oracle Payables to Oracle Assets.

For foreign currency assets, Payables sends the invoice distribution amount in the

converted functional currency. The mass addition line appears in Oracle Assets with

the functional currency amount.

After you create mass additions, you can review them in the Prepare Mass Additions

window in Oracle Assets.

It is recommended to do a final Mass Additions Create after the period close to ensure

that all Payables invoices are:

* Included in the correct period and

* Any additional invoicing will become part of the next periods invoice and asset

processing period.

Suggestion: If the volume of transactions in Accounts Payable requiring

Assets update is large, you should consider running the Mass Additions Create

process on a more regular basis.

12. Open the Next Oracle Payables Period

Open the next accounting period by using the Control Payables Periods window to set

the Period Status to Open.

13. Run Reports for Tax Reporting Purposes (Optional)

A variety of standard reports can be used to provide tax information, which is required

to be reported to the relevant Tax Authority, including withholding tax.

Withholding tax is handled by Payables whereas other tax requirements are handled by

E-Business Tax.

The E-Business Tax data extract draws tax information from each application and

stores the data in an interface table. Output from the tax extract is designed to look as

close to a simple tax report as possible.

Suggested Reports include:

Financial Tax Register

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Use the Financial Tax Register to view the output from the Tax Reporting Ledger. The

Tax Reporting Ledger consists of accounting information created in Oracle Payables,

and Oracle General Ledger. The short name of this report is RXZXPFTR.

These tax registers are available:

• Tax Register (default)

• Interim Tax Register

• Nonrecoverable Tax Register

These summary levels are available within each Tax Register:

• Transaction Distribution Level

• Transaction Level (default)

• Transaction Line Level

Tax Audit Trail Report

Use the Tax Audit Trail report to review tax information for posted or partially posted

invoices. This report provides detail tax and invoice information and the total amounts

for each tax rate code in the invoice currency and functional currency. The report lists,

for each tax rate code, distributions of all posted or partially posted invoices. The

report includes, for each invoice, both the tax amount and the invoice amount subject

to tax. The short name of this report is ZXXTATAT.

Note: Please refer to Oracle E-Business Tax Reporting Guide for complete details on

tax related reports.

14. Run the Key Indicators Report (Optional)

This report enables review of the accounts payables department‟s productivity. This

statistical information can be useful for cash flow analysis and forecasting purposes,

when combined with similar information from Oracle Accounts Receivable.

When you submit the Key Indicators Report, Oracle Payables generates reports you

can use to review payables transaction activity, and review the current number of

suppliers, invoices, payments and matching holds in the system.

The Key Indicators Report generates the following reports:

a) Key Indicators Current Activity Report

Use the Key Indicators Report to review your accounts payable department's

productivity. The Key Indicators Report provides current activity indicators that

compare current period activity with prior period activity in three major areas:

suppliers, invoices, and payments. Payables further breaks down each category into

basic items, exception items, and updates. The report provides the number of

transactions for each indicator (such as number of automatic payments created during

a period) and amount values where applicable to the Key Indicator (such as total value

of automatic payments created during a period).

b) Key Indicators Invoice Activity Report

Report that compares the invoice activity for each of your accounts payable processors

during the period you specify and the previous period. Oracle Payables produces this

report only if you choose „Yes‟ for the Include Invoice Detail parameter.

c) Key Indicators State of the System Report

The Key Indicators State-of-the-System Report provides a period-end view of Oracle

Payables, as well as average values. For example, it includes:

Suppliers:

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* Number of suppliers.

* Number of supplier sites.

*Average sites per supplier (number of sites divided by the number of suppliers).

Invoices:

* Number of invoices.

* Number of invoice distributions.

* Average lines per invoice (number of invoices divided by the number of

distributions.)

* Scheduled payments (number of scheduled payments based on payment terms

and manual adjustments in the Scheduled Payments tab).

* Average payments per invoice (number of invoices divided by the number of

scheduled payments).

Payments:

* Number of payments (both manual and computer generated) created and

recorded in Payables.

* Invoice payments (number of invoice payments made by Payables - a payment

document can pay multiple invoices).

* Average invoices per payment (number of payment documents divided by the

number of invoice payments).

Matching holds:

* Matching holds (number of matching holds in Payables).

* Average matching holds per invoice on matching hold (number of matching holds

divided by the number of invoices on matching hold).

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Chapter 5 Oracle Projects

This chapter describes the procedures for performing period-end processing in Oracle

Projects Release 12.

Business Requirements

Period end procedures for Oracle Projects have two main functions:

Changing the status of the current period to closed

Activating all the processes and controls necessary to produce reports that accurately

reflect the period activity, while allowing minimum interruption of transaction

processing.

Project Periods and General Ledger Periods

In Oracle subledgers, such as Projects, transactions are summarized into periodic

cycles for reporting and reconciliation. Most subledgers have a periodic cycle that

parallels the general ledger fiscal cycle.

However, projects may be based on a different periodic cycle to that of the general

ledger. Project periods may be based on a different period of time such as a week.

If the two sets of periods overlap, then you may need to put in place special procedures

for the reconciliation of Projects to the general ledger, and other modules.

Period Statuses

Oracle Projects has statuses similar to the standard period statuses as in other modules:

*Never Opened - Period has never been used.

* Future Enterable - Period is open to accept transactions from other modules. Usually

used where modules are maintained in different periods, and transactions are likely to

be posted across modules.

* Open - Period is available for data entry.

* Closed - Period is closed for processing, but can be re-opened if required.

* Permanently Closed - No further processing is possible.

* Pending Close - This status prevents transaction entry, and allows users to correct

unprocessed items prior to completing the period close.

Suggestion: If you have different periods in

Projects, you may want to consider using one of

the alternate general ledger period conventions,

such as a 5-4-4 period split. This will enable you

to more easily align Projects with General Ledger

for reconciliation purposes.

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General Exception Handling at Period End

If you do not want to correct exceptions during the current GL period, then you can

run the process “PRC: Sweep Transaction Accounting Events” to change the date on

unaccounted transaction accounting events to the first day of the next open GL period,

without accounting for them.

The Subledger Period Close Exceptions Report lists all accounting events and journal

entries that fail period close validation.

You can generate the Subledger Period Close Exceptions Report through a concurrent

request for the application associated with the responsibility or for all applications in

the General Ledger responsibility.

Procedures

1. Change the Current Oracle Projects Period Status from Open to Pending Close

This is an interim status, which allows you to interface and adjust transactions in the

period but does not allow transaction entry.

This process needs to be performed for each operating unit defined.

2. Open the Next Oracle Projects Period

It is recommended that you open the next period to minimize interruption to users who

may require the ability to enter transactions in the new period during the current period

close procedure.

This process needs to be performed for each operating unit defined.

3. Complete all Maintenance Activities

As there are a number of maintenance activities that can affect the period close

procedure, you should ensure that all the following maintenance activities have been

completed:

Project Maintenance (revenue/billing based options)

* Billing burden schedules and burden schedule overrides

* Bill rate schedules and bill rate overrides

* Project labor multiplier changes

* Revenue budget changes

* Project/Task % complete

* Funding changes

* Changes in the task Ready to Accrue checkbox

Implementation Maintenance

* Employee assignments

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* Labor cost rates

* Standard costing burden schedule maintenance

Other Maintenance

* Retroactive changes in employee assignments

* Retroactive changes in labor cost rates

* Changes in Auto-Accounting Rules or Lookup Sets

Suggestion: You may need to implement workflow procedures, or use function

and responsibility restrictions to prevent access to these areas during the period

close procedure.

4. Run Maintenance Processes

It is recommended that the following maintenance processes be run in preparation for

the period end:

a) Run Burden Schedule maintenance to assure that all burden schedules have been

compiled.

Run PRC: Compile All Burden Schedule Revisions

b) Run organization maintenance to ensure all organizations have been added to all

affected compiled burden schedules.

Run PRC: Add New Organization Compiled Burden Multipliers

c) If changes or additions were made to pre-existing resource lists, update the project

summary amounts before, not during, the period close.

d) Run PRC: Update Project Summary Amounts After Resource List Change

5. Complete All Transactions for the Period Being Closed

Enter and Approve all Timesheets for the PA Period

Import all timesheets entered via Self-Service Time.

Run PRC: Transaction Import. Transaction Source = Oracle Self-Service Time.

Verify that all pre-approved timesheet batches in the current PA period have been

released and approved.

Attention: One rejected expenditure item will cause an entire expenditure to be

rejected.

If Oracle Projects is the direct data source for payroll or for reconciling labor costs to

payroll, verify that all timecards are entered or accounted for.

Run the AUD: Missing Timecards Report

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Interface Supplier Invoices from Oracle Payables

Before generating project revenue or running final cost event processes, import all

eligible supplier invoices from Oracle Payables.

Warning: If your PA period matches a GL/AP month end, ensure that all new

supplier invoices processing for the current GL period has stopped.

Run PRC: Interface Supplier Invoices from Payables

Interface Expense Reports from Oracle Payables

Before generating project revenue or running final cost distribution processes, import

all eligible expense reports from Oracle Payables to create pre-approved expense

report batches. These expense reports may have been entered via Self-Service

Expenses or Expense Reports in Oracle Payables.

Run PRC: Interface Expense Reports from Payables

Project Related Inventory Transactions

Note: the following processes must be completed within Oracle Inventory prior to

importing project related inventory transactions:

* Run the Cost Collector

* Project Cost Transfer

* Run PRC: Transaction Import.

The following transaction sources are pre-defined.

Source Description

Inventory Manufacturing Material Costs

Inventory Misc Inventory Issues and Receipts entered in

the Miscellaneous Transactions window in

Oracle Inventory

Work In Process Manufacturing Resource Costs

Attention: Entering new expenditures or adjusting existing expenditures

during the final cost distribution process may cause reconciliation

problems. Access to these activities should be controlled, after verifying

that all transactions for the period have been accounted for.

6. Run the Cost Distribution Processes

Run all cost distribution processes to cost all enabled expenditures that have an

expenditure item earlier than or equal to the current reporting PA period end date:

* PRC: Distribute Labor Costs

* PRC: Distribute Usage & Miscellaneous Costs

* PRC: Distribute Expense Report Adjustments

* PRC: Distribute Supplier Invoice Adjustment Costs

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* PRC: Distribute Borrowed and Lent Amounts

* PRC: Total Burdened Cost (If using Project Burdening)

* PRC: Create and Distribute Burdened Transactions (If using Project Burdening)

Note: PRC: Distribute Expense Report is now obsolete.

6a. Run the Generate Cost Accounting Events Program

This is a new program in R12. This program has to be run to generate accounting

events, which will be later used by SLA. For more information refer to Oracle Project

Costing User guide.

The programs to be run are: PRC: Generate Cost Accounting Events and PRC:

Generate Cross Charge Accounting Events.

7. Interface Cost Transactions to Other Applications

You must successfully interface all relevant costs to Oracle Payables, Oracle General

Ledger and Oracle Assets or revenue to Oracle Receivables before you can change the

status of the current PA period to Closed.

Transfer from Projects to GL can be achieved by submitting the „Create Accounting‟ –

(PRC: Create Accounting) process from the SRS screen. This program is owned by

SLA and creates accounting, transfers & posts to GL with the appropriate parameters.

If accounting was performed without transferring to GL, then submit PRC: Submit

Interface Streamline Processes with the appropriate streamline parameters to transfer

the costs to GL. Journal Import can be submitted from GL to import the costs into GL.

Interface CIP Assets to Oracle Assets

Run PRC: Interface Assets

This process requires that prior to interfacing, all asset lines have been generated by

running the PRC: Generate Assets Lines for a range of projects process.

Attention: You can interface asset lines to Oracle Assets only after you have

transferred the underlying expenditure items to General Ledger.

Note: Ensure that all interface transaction reports and exception reports are completed

successfully, and/or resolved prior to continuing with the period close.

Suggestion: Some of the above reports and processes may be run using Submit

Streamline Processes, which ensures that processes and reports are run and

completed in the correct order. If you use the Streamline process, the order of

some of the above steps may be changed, or completed more succinctly.

8. Generate Draft Revenue for All Projects

After all the cost distributions processes have completed successfully and all supplier

invoices have been imported from Oracle Payables, run the mass project revenue

generation process.

Run PRC: Generate Draft Revenue for a Range of Projects for all projects.

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Attention: Concurrent Revenue processes can be run only if the ranges of

projects specified for the processes do not overlap

9. Review and Release Revenue for All Projects

Perform a review of the revenue generated and approve the same.

10. Run Generation Revenue Accounting Events Process

Run PRC: Generate Revenue Accounting Events to generate events for revenue. These

events will be used subsequently by the Create Accounting process to generate

accounting.

11. Run Create Accounting to Process Revenue Accounting Events

This program is used to generate accounting and then transfer it to the General Ledger

based on appropriate parameters. If accounting is generated in FINAL mode with

Transfer to General Ledger being set to „No‟ then run PRC: Transfer Journal Entries

to GL with parameters to either post in GL or just to leave it unposted. If it is

transferred unposted, the General Ledger posting program needs to be submitted.

Attention: Interface processes have become obsolete. The same is achieved by

PRC: Create Accounting

12. Generate Invoices

Run PRC: Generate Invoices to generate invoices to be interfaced to Oracle

Receivables.

Run PRC: Generate Inter-Company Invoices for a Range of Projects for all projects.

This process:

* Creates inter-company invoices from cross–charged transactions previously

identified by inter-company billing to be processed for cross charging.

* Deletes unreleased inter-company invoices.

* Creates inter-company credit memos and invoice cancellations.

13. Transfer Invoices to Oracle Receivables

Run PRC: Interface Invoices to Receivables

Run PRC: Interface Inter-Company Invoices to Receivables

Warning: Make sure that Oracle Receivables has not closed its period until all

Oracle Projects invoices have been interfaced to Oracle Receivables

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14. Run Period Close Exceptions and Tieback Reports

Run the period close exceptions reports to identify transactions that have not been fully

processed, and that would prevent you from closing the PA period:

* AUD: Cross Charge GL Audit

* AUD: Missing Timecards

* EXC: Transaction Exception Details

* EXC: Transaction Exception Summary

* PRC: Tieback Invoices from Receivables

The tieback process from GL has become obsolete. Review the report generated by

Create Accounting/Transfer to GL processes for any errors.

Review these reports and make all the indicated corrections. After the corrections are

made, run the reports again until there are no exceptions.

Suggestion: Some of the above reports and processes may be run using the

Submit Streamline Processes process. This process ensures processes and

reports are run and completed in the correct order. If you use the Streamline

process, the order of some of the above steps may be changed, or completed

more succinctly. All the streamline options are not available in R12. Some of

them have become obsolete. Please refer to the relevant financials and projects

user guides.

15. Run Final Project Costing and Revenue Management Reports

Run all of the following project costing management reports:

* MGT: Revenue, Cost Budgets by Resources (Project Level)

* MGT: Task - Revenue, Cost, Budgets by Resources

* MGT: Revenue, Cost, Budgets by Work Breakdown Structure

* MGT: Employee Activity Report

* MGT: Invoice Review

* MGT: Unbilled Receivables Aging

* MGT: Agreement Status by Customer

16. Change the Current Oracle Projects Period Status from Pending Close to

Closed

When changing the status to Closed, the system checks to see if any unprocessed items

exist in the period. If unprocessed items exist, the change of status is not allowed.

Re-run the period close exception reports to identify any unprocessed items.

This process needs to be performed for each operating unit defined.

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17. Advance the PA Reporting Period (Optional)

When you are ready to view the updated summary amounts for the next PA period in

the Project Summary Inquiry window, advance the PA Reporting Period.

Only one period can be designated as the current reporting period for Project Status

Inquiry. The current reporting period does not have to be an open period.

18. Update Project Summary Amounts

To enable users to view the latest data in the Project Status Inquiry Window, you must

run a final project summary update for the current reporting (pending close) PA

period.

Attention: The update process cannot run concurrently with the interface

processes.

Warning: Do not run PRC: Update Project Summary Amounts After Resource

List Change during the closing or post-closing processes.

19. Restore Access to User Maintenance Activities

After the project summary amounts have been updated for the closed, current reporting

period, restore access to user maintenance activities.

20. Reconcile Cost Distribution Lines with General Ledger (Optional)

The following Project Subledger Audit Reports print cost distribution lines related to

projects. These reports enable you to drill down from a GL account balance in the trial

balance to the individual project–related transactions:

* Run AUD: Project Subledger Summary

* Run AUD: Project Subledger: Detail by Project

* Run AUD: Project Subledger: Detail by Expenditure Type

21. Permanently Close the Oracle Projects Period (Optional)

When you are satisfied with the closing of the PA period and will not need to reopen

the period, change the status of the PA period to Permanently Closed.

Warning: Once a period is permanently closed it can never be re-opened.

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Chapter 6 Oracle Receivables

This chapter describes the procedures for performing period-end processing in Oracle

Receivables Release 12.

Business Requirements

Oracle Receivables requires periodic internal reconciliation of the transactions entered

into the Accounts Receivables system.

Oracle Receivables provides a comprehensive set of reports to facilitate the

reconciliation of outstanding customer balances, transactions, receipts, and account

balances.

The application provides the functionality to enable reconciliation of your sub-ledger,

before posting to the General Ledger. Posting to the General Ledger allows the

extraction of details from Oracle Receivables, and the creation of journal entries in the

General Ledger. After posting to the General Ledger, it is possible to reconcile Oracle

Receivables with the General Ledger by verifying that all the correct journal entries

were made.

Procedures

The following steps are taken in performing period-end processing for Oracle

Receivables.

1. Complete All Transactions for the Period Being Closed

Ensure that all transactions have been entered for the period being closed.

Completing all transactions for Oracle Receivables:

* Complete Invoicing, Credits and Adjustments

* Complete Receipts and Reversals

* Complete Invoice and Customer Import

* Complete Lock Box Processing

* Run the revenue recognition program (Optional; required if OM-shipping is used)

If you import transactions from an external system or Oracle Projects, ensure that you

have imported all transactions and master files, and reviewed all audit trails for

completeness.

2. Reconcile Transaction Activity for the Period

Reconcile the transaction activity in Oracle Receivables, before posting to the General

Ledger using SLA. This reconciliation process checks that Oracle Receivables

transactions are balanced, ensuring that all items eligible for posting are reflected on

the Sales Journal. Run the following reports for the same accounting period date range:

a. Transaction Register

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This report details all the transactions (i.e. invoices, debit memos, credit memos,

deposits, guarantees and chargebacks) entered with a GL date between the period start

and period end dates, specified for the period being reconciled. This report shows

transactions which were entered and completed.

b. Sales Journal by Customer Report and the Sales Journal by GL Account Report

This report enables the review of all transactions for the specified period. The

summary totals for the sales journal are by Posting Status, Company, and Transaction

Currency. This report details, by account type (i.e. receivables, revenue, freight, tax),

the general ledger distributions for posted and/or un-posted invoices for the specified

period.

The total on the Sales Journal by GL Account should equal the total of items eligible

for posting as listed on the Transaction Register. If any discrepancies are evident,

research the customer balances to find out which balance does not tally, using the Sales

Journal by Customer report.

By using the following formula, ensure that the Transaction Register matches the Sales

Journal:

Transaction Register (Items eligible for posting) + 2 * Credit Memo Total = Sales

Journal (Debits plus Credits)

E.g. $100 + (2 * $20) = Debits $120 + Credits $20

($120 Debits - $20 Credits)

Attention: The Transaction Register total for any credits must be adjusted, as

they are negative on the Transaction Register and positive on the Sales Journal.

Attention: Ensure that the monthly transaction total is accurate and that no

distribution issues exist.

c. Journal Entries Report

This report enables the review and analysis of accounting entries in the Receivables

subledger, as accounted by SLA. Using the report parameters, you can produce a

detailed or summary listing of the accounting information you want to review.

The report also lists in detail, transactions that have been accounted with error, and all

entries that could not be transferred to the general ledger. When a transaction is

accounted with errors, review the details and make the necessary changes.

By altering the parameters, the report also lists those transactions, which have been

posted in general ledger, and those which are yet to be posted but have been accounted.

SLA groups the report by ledger, ledger currency, source, category, and event class.

Data is then sorted by accounting date, event type, customer name, document number,

and voucher number.

Note: To avoid duplication with subledger journal entries, general ledger journal

entries imported from Subledger Accounting are not included in the report.

d. AR to GL Reconciliation Report

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The AR to GL Reconciliation report compares the account balances in Oracle

Receivables to those in Oracle General Ledger, and highlights journal sources where

discrepancies might exist. This report simplifies the reconciliation process by

comparing Receivables and General Ledger account balances in a single place.

Run the AR to GL Reconciliation report:

* After the Create Accounting program in Receivables has completed, and

* You have reviewed the Unposted Items report to confirm that all journal entries have

posted, and

* You have used the posting execution reports to confirm that the journal entries

exported from Receivables match those posted in General Ledger.

This report will show a difference between Receivables and GL account balances

only if items did not successfully post to GL accounts. The Difference column

indicates how the activity in Receivables compares to the journal source of

Receivables in the General Ledger. If the actual balance of a specific account is

different in Receivables than in GL, then the following columns highlight the type

of journals that affect the account balances:

* GL Source Manual - Manual journal entries made in the General Ledger.

* GL Subledgers Not AR - Journal entries posted to the General Ledger from other

subledgers, such as Oracle Payables or a legacy feeder system.

* Unposted in GL - Unposted Oracle Receivables journals in the general ledger.

During the internal reconciliation process, use the AR Reconciliation report to

confirm that your transactional and accounting data match. However, even if the

data matches, the journals could still post to incorrect GL accounts. The Potential

Reconciling Items report addresses this issue by suggesting journal items that

might potentially post to GL accounts with unexpected account types, thus

creating reconciliation issues in Oracle General Ledger.

3. Reconcile Outstanding Customer Balances

Reconcile the outstanding customer balances at the beginning of a specified period with

the ending balance for the same period, using the following formula, known as the Roll

Forward Formula:

Period-End Balance = Outstanding Balance at Start of Period + Transactions +

Adjustments – Invoice Exceptions – Applied Receipts – Unapplied Receipts

The following list represents the various components that affect a

customer‟s balance and the reports, which can be run and reviewed to reconcile these

components:

Component Report

Beginning Balance Aging reports

Transactions Transaction Register

Adjustments Adjustment Register

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Exceptions Invoice Exceptions Report

Applied Receipts Applied Receipts Register (Identify

payments received from customers)

Unapplied Receipts

Unapplied and Unresolved Receipts

Register (identify payments

received from customers)

Ending Balance Aging report (as of the last day of

the accounting period)

Attention: You can use the Invoice Exceptions Report to adjust the Transaction

Register for any transactions, which are not open in Receivables, and therefore

do not show up in the aging reports.

4. Review the Unapplied Receipts Register

Use the Unapplied Receipts Register to review detailed information about your

customers‟ on-account and unapplied payments for the date range that you specify.

You can use this report to determine how much your customer owes after taking into

account all on-account and unapplied amounts. Receivables displays information about

your on-account or unapplied payment such as GL date, batch source, batch name,

payment method, payment number, payment date, on-account amount, and unapplied

amount. This report includes both cash and miscellaneous receipts.

If any of the Receipts listed can now be applied to outstanding transactions, you can

perform this action by re-querying the receipts and following the normal application

procedure.

5. Reconcile Receipts

Ensure that Oracle Receivables receipts balance by running the following reports:

a) Receipts Journal Report

This report displays details of receipts that appear in the Journal Entries Report. The

Journal Entries Report shows the receipt numbers that contribute to a particular GL

account. Using the receipt number, you can review the detailed information on the

Receipts Journal Report.

b) Receipt Register

Use this report to review a list of receipts for a specified date range.

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Attention: Normally the total of the Receipts Journal report should equal the

total of all the receipts in the Receipt Register for the same GL date range. See

the following My Oracle Support bugs and enhancement requests for more

details:

Note 393682.1: Unable to Reconcile Receipt Register to Receipt Journal –

Enhancement 5567693 is still pending.

Bug 7423482: Receipt Register and Receipt Journal do not show on-account

activity – deemed functionality.

Bug 7589198: Receipt Register does not match Receipt journal – deemed

functionality (similar to Bug 7423482).

Both reports display invoice related receipts and miscellaneous receipts.

6. Reconcile Receipts to Bank Statement Activity for the Period

(Refer to Chapter 3 Period-End Procedures for Oracle Cash Management)

Attention: The Create Accounting process must be re-run for any

miscellaneous accounting entries generated from the bank reconciliation, for

transfer to the General Ledger.

7. Post to the General Ledger

Prior to posting to the General Ledger, the Receipts Journal Report and Sales Journal

display the transactions that would be posted to the General Ledger (provided the

posting process was run for the same GL date range). After internally reconciling the

transactions and receipts using these two reports, it is possible to perform external

reconciliation during and after the posting process.

The posting process for Oracle Receivables involves a single step:

Create Accounting

This process can be submitted from the transactions screen to account for a specific

receivables transaction or from the SRS screen to account for all receivables

transactions. The accounting is done at the ledger level and the program has the ability

to transfer and import into the General Ledger based on the parameters specified.

If Create Accounting is submitted in the „Final‟ mode without transferring it to the

General Ledger, the entries will have to be transferred separately.

8. Reconcile the General Ledger Transfer Process

The Create Accounting program produces the Subledger Accounting Program report

that shows you the subledger journal entries created for successful accounting events.

Compare this report to the Journal Entries Report (run in Posted status mode) and

verify that they match. Use the same General Ledger date ranges for the Journal

Entries Report and the Create Accounting program.

Create Accounting will generate a report which details the transferred transactions,

transactions in error etc.

Once transactions and receipts have been transferred to the GL tables, Oracle

Receivables regards these items as having been „posted‟ within the sub-ledger. Account

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balances for transactions and receipts can be reconciled by generating the Sales

Journal by GL Account Report, the Receipts Journal Report (in „transaction‟ mode)

and the Journal Entries Report for posted items. The account totals in the Sales and

Receipt journals should match the corresponding account balances in the Journal

Entries Report.

Attention: The „Detail by Account‟ version of the Journal Entries Report may

be the most useful for reconciliation in this case.

When running any Oracle Receivables reports that display accounting involving

transactions that have been posted to GL, the following statements apply:

If SLA final accounting lines exist, then SLA accounting is displayed. If SLA

accounting lines do not exist, then AR distribution accounting is displayed.

9. Reconcile the Journal Import Process

Create Accounting program submits Journal Import automatically when launched in

„Mode = Final‟ and „Transfer to GL = Yes‟. Reconcile the Journal Import by

manually reviewing the transactions in the Subledger Accounting Program Report, and

comparing them with the Journal Entries Report output.

The Journal Entries Report is a new Subledger Accounting BI Publisher report which

is available from the subledger applications and can be run with parameter Posted =

Yes, No or ALL, which users can copy and modify the report template according to

their needs.

Attention: If the customer is using Reporting/Accounting sequences, they can

run Journal Entries Report using Sequence Ranges created in the Create

Accounting program run, and compare the total with the Journal Import

Execution Report.

10. Print Invoices

Once you are satisfied that the customer balances are reconciled, ensure all the

invoices generated during the month have been printed and issued.

If the Balance Forward Billing functionality is used, ensure that the consolidated

(BFB) invoices have been generated for the current period.

Note: Balance Forward Billing replaces consolidated billing invoices (CBI) feature of

11i. For more information on the setup of balance forward billing, refer to the Oracle

Receivables Implementation Guide or the Oracle Receivables User Guide.

11. Close the Current Oracle Receivables Period

Close the current period in Oracle Receivables using the Open/Close Accounting

Periods window.

Attention: Where there are multiple operating units within the same ledger all

operating units must be ready to close at the same time. All of the operating

units that share a ledger also share the same period statuses. When you update

the period statuses to „Open‟ in one operating unit, that period is opened for all

operating units within the ledger.

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12. Review the Subledger Period Close Exceptions Report

The Subledger Period Close Exceptions Report lists all the accounting events and

journal entries that fail period close validation. It is automatically submitted by

General Ledger when closing a GL period if there are unprocessed accounting events

or un-transferred journal entries.

You can also generate the Subledger Period Close Exceptions Report through a

concurrent request as follows:

* For the application associated with the responsibility

* For all applications in the General Ledger responsibility

13. Third Party Balances Report

Run Third Party Balances Report from the SRS screen.

This report is used to display balance and account activity information for Suppliers

and Customers. It retrieves the following information:

* Third party balances for third party control accounts

* Subledger journal entry lines that add up to the total period activity for each

control account, third party, and third party site

* Third party and third party site information

* User transaction identifiers for the associated event

The balances in this report can be compared with the General Ledger balances for the

same control accounts to reconcile.

14. Reconcile Posted Journal Entries

After running the GL posting process in Oracle General Ledger, for the transactions,

which were transferred in FINAL mode and with Post in GL being set to NO, run the

Journal Entries Report (with „Posted = Y‟) to help reconcile the posted journals.

15. Review the Unposted Items Report

Oracle Receivables prints the Unposted Items Report for all items that are not posted

for the specified GL date range. Run the request from the Submit Requests window.

The output will consist of all items not posted to the General Ledger for the specified

GL date range.

Using the Submit Requests window to generate this report, submit with a GL date

range for at least the current financial year. This report should not generate any output

if all Receivables transactions have been successfully posted to the General Ledger.

If there are any items not posted for the current or prior periods, then re-open both

appropriate Receivables and General Ledger Periods and initiate another posting.

16. Review Account Analysis Report

The Account Analysis Report provides drill-down information about the activities

relating to a particular account for a period or range of periods. It only includes journal

entries transferred to and posted to the General Ledger.

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Review this report and compare it with the Third Party balances report.

Note: To avoid duplication with subledger journal entries, General Ledger journal

entries imported from Subledger Accounting are not included in the report.

17. Open the Next Oracle Receivables Period

Open the next period in Oracle Receivables using the Open/Close Accounting Periods

window.

18. Run Reports for Tax Reporting Purposes (Optional)

A variety of standard reports can be used to provide tax information, which is required

to be reported to the relevant Tax Authority, including withholding tax.

The E-Business Tax data extract draws tax information from each application and

stores the data in an interface table. Output from the tax extract is designed to look as

close to a simple tax report as possible.

The following tax registers are available:

a) Deferred Output Tax Register

b) Recoverable and Non-Recoverable Tax Registers

c) Single Cross Product Tax Register

d) Standard Input and Output Tax Registers

The following summary levels are available within each Tax Register:

* Transaction Header

* Transaction Line

* Accounting Line

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Chapter 7 Oracle Purchasing

This chapter describes the procedures for performing period-end processing in Oracle

Purchasing Release 12.

Business Requirements

The purchasing activity must be reconciled for the accounting period that is to be

closed.

Procedures

The following steps are performed while closing the period in Oracle Purchasing.

1. Complete All Transactions for the Period Being Closed

Ensure that all transactions have been entered for the period being closed.

Complete all transactions for Oracle Purchasing:

a) Complete Requisitions

b) Complete Purchase Orders and Releases

c) Complete Receipts and Returns

Submit the Confirm Receipts Workflow Select Orders process in Purchasing to send

notifications through the Web, e–mail, or Notification Details Web page (accessible

through the Notifications Summary menu in Purchasing) to requestors or buyers who

create requisitions in Purchasing or iProcurement. The Confirm Receipts workflow

sends notifications for items with a Destination or Deliver–To Type of Expense, a

Routing of Direct Delivery, and a Need–By date that is equal to or later than today‟s

date.

Requestors can create receipt transactions by responding to the notification.

d) Print or Archive all new Purchase Orders

e) Respond to all Workflow Notifications

Notifications may either require action (e.g. notify approver approval required), or are

FYI notifications only (e.g. notify requestor requisition has been approved). Users

should close all FYI notifications and respond to those that require a response. Closing

FYI notifications is Optional.

2. Review the Current and Future Commitments (Optional)

Run the Purchase Order Commitment by Period Report:

The Purchase Order Commitment by Period Report shows the monetary value of

purchased commitments for a specified period, and the next five periods. You can use

the report sorted by buyer to monitor buyer performance. You can also use the report

when negotiating with a supplier by limiting the commitments to a specific supplier.

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3. Review the Outstanding and Overdue Purchase Orders (Optional)

Run the following reports:

* Purchase Order Detail Report

* Open Purchase Orders (by Buyer) Report

* Open Purchase Orders (by Cost Center) Report

These reports can be used to review all, specific standard, or planned purchase orders.

The quantity ordered and quantity received is displayed so the status of the purchase

orders can be monitored.

4. Follow Up Receipts - Check With Suppliers

For purchase orders not received, the appropriate department can use the details

obtained from the Purchase Order Detail Report, to follow up the status of the ordered

items with the suppliers.

If the goods have been received, but the receipt has not been entered into Oracle

Purchasing, the receipt transaction needs to be entered by the appropriate personnel.

Attention: Where you have selected to accrue receipts at period end, make sure

that all receipts have been entered for a specific period, before creating receipt

accruals for that period.

It is not necessary to enter all the receipts for a period prior to closing that period.

Simply backdate the receipt date when entering receipts for a closed period.

Warning: Where you have Oracle Inventory installed, it is not possible to

process a receipt to a closed Purchasing period.

5. Identify and Review Un-invoiced Receipts (Period-End Accruals)

Run the Un-invoiced Receipts Report to review receipts for which the supplier invoice

has not been entered in Payables. Receipt accruals can be reviewed by account and by

item. This report indicates exactly what has to be accrued, for what amount, and helps

in the preparation of accrual entries.

6. Follow Up on Outstanding Invoices

For any items identified to have been received but not invoiced, the appropriate

department can then follow up with the supplier, using the details from the Un-invoiced

Receipts Report. Entering of invoices, matching of unmatched invoices, and resolution

of any invoice holds, where possible, should be carried out at this point in the period-

end process.

7. Complete the Oracle Payables Period-End Process

Complete the steps to close the Oracle Payables period, which corresponds to the

Oracle Purchasing period being closed, to enable the creation of receipts accrual

entries. Performing the Oracle Payables Period-End process effectively prevents any

further invoices or payments being entered into Oracle Payables for the closed period.

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8. Run the Receipt Accruals - Period End Process

Run the Receipt Accruals - Period-End Report to create period-end accruals for un-

invoiced receipts, for Expense distributions for a specific purchasing period. Each

time the process is run, Oracle Purchasing creates an un-posted journal entry batch in

the General Ledger for the receipt accruals. Journal entries are created for the amount

of the receipt liabilities, debiting the charge account and crediting the Expense AP

Accrual Account.

If encumbrance or budgetary control is being used, another journal entries batch is

created, corresponding to the encumbrance reversal entries for the un-invoiced receipts

that were accrued. Reversal of accrual entries for the next period will happen

automatically if:

* The Profile option „GL: Launch Auto Reverse after Open Period' is set to 'Y'

* And the reverse option is selected for the accrual journal category.

If the profile option is set to „N‟, then the accrual entries need to be reversed manually.

Oracle Purchasing creates accrual entries only up to the quantity the supplier did not

invoice for the partially invoiced receipts.

Attention: This step is only required if the Accrue Expense Items flag is set to

Period End, on the Accrual tabbed region of the Purchasing Options window for

the current Organization.

When the Accrue Expense Items flag is set to At Receipt, a reversal is not

required.

If encumbrance or budgetary control is being used,

Oracle Purchasing reverses the encumbrance entry

when creating the corresponding accrual entry.

Identify the purchasing period for the receipt

accrual entries: Oracle Purchasing creates receipt

accruals for all receipts entered up to the end of the

nominated period.

This process can be run as many times as needed.

Attention: The Receipt Accruals Period End Program creates accounting in the

receiving sub ledger only. The Create Accounting Program has to be run to

create SLA journals, which in turn will trigger the journal import.

9. Reconcile Accrual Accounts - Perpetual Accruals

Identify the period-end balances of the following accounts in the General Ledger:

* Purchase Price Variance

* Invoice Price Variance Account

* AP Accrual Account

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* Inventory Account - (Refer to Chapter 8 Period-End Procedures for Oracle

Inventory)

Reconcile the balance of the Purchase Price Variance account using the Purchase Price

Variance Report.

Manually remove the Invoice Price Variance amount from the AP Accrual Account

using your General Ledger.

Identify the Invoice Price Variances amount and Accrued Receipts amount in the AP

Accrual Account. Run the Invoice Price Variance Report for the current period.

Identify the invoice price variance for all purchase orders charged to the Inventory AP

Accrual Account and compare it with the balance of the Invoice Price Variance

account in the General Ledger.

At any given time, the following transactions can account for the balance in the AP

accrual account:

* Uninvoiced Receipts

* Over-invoiced Receipts

* Errors (Invoices or inventory transactions charged to this Account by mistake)

You need to analyze the balance of the AP accrual accounts, distinguish accrued

receipts from invoice price variances, and identify errors.

The Accrual Reconciliation Reports are used to analyze un-invoiced receipts, and to

reconcile the balance of the AP accrual accounts. These reports enable you to identify

the following issues in receiving, purchasing, inventory, work in process, or accounts

payable transactions:

* Quantity differences between receipts and invoices

* Incorrect purchase order or invoice unit prices

* Discrepancies in supplier billing

* Invoice matched to the wrong purchase order distribution

* Receipts against the wrong purchase order or order line

* Miscellaneous inventory or work in process transactions that do not belong to the

accrual accounts

* Payables entries for tax and freight that do not belong to the accrual accounts

The Accrual Reconciliation Report Group consists of one program and three reports

as discussed below:

a) Accrual Reconciliation LR Program load run

This program is used in the accrual reconciliation process to populate the accrual

reconciliation table with all the necessary transaction data to perform the reconciliation

process. All the affected PO distributions (in the case of AP/PO transactions and

individual transactions in the case of miscellaneous transactions) will be deleted first

and the transaction information for these distributions will be fetched and loaded into

the accrual reconciliation tables.

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b) AP and PO Accrual Reconciliation Report

The AP and PO Accrual Reconciliation Report provides a transactional breakdown of

each accrual account with a net balance not equal to zero.

c) Miscellaneous Accrual Reconciliation Report

The Miscellaneous Accrual Reconciliation Report shows all inventory and AP (not

matched to PO) transactions that have hit the accrual account.

d) Summary Accrual Reconciliation Report

The Summary Accrual Reconciliation Report can be used to analyze the balance of the

AP accrual accounts. You can accrue both expense and inventory purchases as you

receive them. When this happens, you temporarily record an accounts payable liability

to your expense or inventory AP accrual accounts. When Oracle Payables creates the

accounting for the matched and approved invoice, Oracle Payables clears the AP

accrual accounts, records the liability from the supplier site and helps you monitor

potential problems with purchasing and receiving activities that can affect the accuracy

of your AP Accrual Accounts.

After researching the reported accrual balances, the Accrual Write-Offs window can

be used to indicate which entries are to be removed and written off from this report.

Accounting entries have to be created in SLA and GL for these write-off transactions

by submitting the Create Accounting program; and hence manual adjustment of

accrual entries is not required.

The Reconciliation Reports can help in monitoring potential problems with purchasing

and receiving activities that can affect the accuracy of the AP accrual accounts.

The Reconciliation reports also provide information on the quantity differences

(between the quantity received for a purchase order shipment and the quantity

invoiced), and price differences. Ensure that prior to closing the period, these

differences are resolved.

Prerequisites:

* Oracle Payables and Oracle Purchasing installed.

* If expense purchases are accrued on receipt, this report enables reconciliation with

the accounts payable accrual account.

* If expense purchases are accrued at period end, and inventory receipts are not

performed, no information will be available to report.

* If you have installed Oracle Inventory or Work in Process, the Accrual

Reconciliation Report also displays any inventory or work in process transactions for

the accrual accounts.

Attention: Most commercial installations accrue expense receipts at period end,

as the information is not required as the receipt occurs. If expense purchases are

accrued on receipt, more entries must be reconciled in the AP accrual accounts.

If you also receive inventory, the Receiving Value Report by Destination

Account must be run to break out the receiving/inspection value by asset and

expense.

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Attention: For Oracle Purchasing, all transactions are created in Purchasing

and need the GL Transfer Program to be run to transfer to the General Ledger.

For Oracle Inventory, and Oracle Work In

Progress, a GL transfer or period close must first

be performed for the transactions to appear on

these reports.

For Oracle Payables, journal entries must be

created for the invoices.

The Accrual Reconciliation Reports requires the transactions to be transferred

to the General Ledger interface to ensure that the report balances to the General

Ledger.

10. Perform Year End Encumbrance Processing (Optional)

Oracle Financials provides a number of facilities for the processing of outstanding

encumbrances as part of year end processing.

The default processing for Oracle Financials at year end is to extinguish any

outstanding encumbrances or unused funds when you close the last period of the

Financial Year within Oracle General Ledger.

The carry forward process enables managers to perform any of the following:

* Carry forward encumbrances for existing transactions (purchases / requisitions).

* Carry forward encumbrances, and the encumbered budget.

* Carry forward the funds available as at the end of the year.

Other facilities available:

* Use mass allocations to bring forward part of the funds available.

* Carry forward budgets into the current appropriation budget, or to a separate budget

to identify between current year and carry forward amounts if required. Mass budget

processing also allows you to combine these budgets.

Attention: You must complete the Year End Encumbrance processing in Oracle

Purchasing, before commencing the year end Encumbrance processing in Oracle

General Ledger.

(Refer to Chapter 11 Period-End Procedures for Oracle General Ledger.)

The steps required to complete year end encumbrance processing in Oracle Purchasing

are:

a) Identify Outstanding Encumbrances

Print the Encumbrance Detail Report to review the requisition and purchase order

encumbrances, if the encumbrance option for requisitions or purchase orders has been

enabled, and requisitions and purchases have entered and approved. Use this report to

review the accounts encumbered.

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The Encumbrance Detail Report reflects activity from General Ledger, not Purchasing

or Oracle Payables. Therefore, use the Encumbrance Detail Report in a way that

matches the accounting method:

* Receipt accrual - Generate the Encumbrance Detail Report as needed when the

Accrue at Receipt option is used. Upon entering receipt delivery information, an

automated process transfers the receipt information to General Ledger using the

Journal Import Process.

* Period-end accrual - Generate the Encumbrance Detail Report at period-end. During

the period, the encumbrance detail on the report is based on invoice matching

information from Payables, not on receiving information. After the Receipt Accruals -

Period-End process is run; the Encumbrance Detail Report reflects the true period-end

receipt information.

* Cash basis - If cash-basis accounting is used, the encumbrances on the Encumbrance

Detail Report remain until payment information from Payables is transferred to

General Ledger. When cash-basis accounting is used and the Payables Transfer to

General Ledger process is submitted, Payables transfers only accounting information

for paid invoices to the General Ledger.

Based on this report you can identify those transactions that you wish to carry forward

into the new financial year.

Refer below to the steps required to cancel transactions that are not to be carried

forward.

b) Perform Mass Cancel in Oracle Purchasing (Optional)

Mass Cancel enables the cancellation of requisitions and purchase orders on the basis

of user selected criteria.

Define Mass Cancel

The Define Mass Cancel window is used to nominate a date range for transactions, as

well as any of the following:

* Document Type

* Supplier Name

* Accounting Flexfield Range

This process will automatically generate a Mass Cancel listing report identifying the

following:

* Unable to Cancel Requisitions (reasons provided)

* Unable to Cancel Purchase Orders (reasons provided)

* Partially in Range Documents

* Fully in Range Documents

Run Mass Cancel

When this process is run, Oracle Purchasing creates journal entries to zero out the

encumbrances associated with the cancelled requisitions and purchase orders.

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Attention: If you wish to cancel both purchase orders and requisitions, you

must initiate Mass Cancel twice. Note that when canceling a purchase order,

you have the option of canceling the original requisition at the same time.

11. Close the Current Oracle Purchasing Period

Close the current Purchasing Period in the Control Purchasing Periods window. Oracle

Purchasing automatically un-marks all the receipts previously accrued to ensure that

these receipts can be accrued again if they are still not invoiced in the next accounting

period (where you have selected to accrue receipts at period end).

12. Open the Next Oracle Purchasing Period

Open the next purchasing period in the Control Purchasing Periods window.

13. Run Standard Period End Reports (Optional)

* Suppliers Quality and Performance Analysis Reports

a) Suppliers Report

Use the Suppliers Report to review detailed information entered for a supplier in the

Suppliers and Supplier Sites windows. This report also shows if a supplier is on PO

Hold.

You have the option to include supplier site address and contact information. Payables

lists your suppliers in alphabetical order and you can additionally order the report by

supplier number.

b) Suppliers Audit Report

Use the Supplier Audit Report to help identify potential duplicate suppliers. This

report lists active suppliers whose names are the same, up to a specified number of

characters. The report ignores case, spaces, special characters, etc.

The report lists all site names and addresses of each potential duplicate supplier. The

report inserts a blank line between groups of possible duplicate suppliers. After

duplicate suppliers have been identified, they can be combined using Supplier Merge.

If purchase order information is merged, then any references to the supplier in blanket

purchase orders, quotations, and auto source rules are updated to the new supplier.

c) Supplier Quality Performance Analysis Report

The Supplier Quality Performance Analysis Report can be used to review suppliers'

quality performance, for percents accepted, rejected, and returned. This report is useful

for identifying suppliers with quality performance issues.

d) Supplier Service Performance Analysis Report

The Supplier Service Performance Analysis Report lists late shipments, early

shipments, rejected shipments, and shipments to wrong locations. This report can be

used to derive a supplier service penalty by multiplying the days variance quantity by a

percentage of the price.

The % Open Current is the percentage of the ordered quantity not yet received, but

within the receipt tolerance days or not past due.

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The % Open Past Due is the percentage of the ordered quantity not received by the

promise date and beyond the receipt tolerance days.

The % Received On Time is the percentage of the ordered quantity received on the

promise date or within the receipt tolerance days.

The % Received Late is the percentage of the ordered quantity received after the

promise date and outside the receipt tolerance days.

The % Received Early is the percentage of the ordered quantity received before the

promise date and outside the receipt tolerance days.

The Days Variance is calculated as the summation of the date differential (transaction

date subtracted from promise date) multiplied by the corrected received quantity (the

received quantity plus or minus corrections) for each shipment, all divided by the total

corrected received quantity. The result is the quantity per day the supplier is in

variance.

e) Supplier Volume Analysis Report

The Supplier Volume Analysis Report shows the dollar value of items purchased from

a supplier. The report prints the items that are assigned sourcing rules. Use the report

to compare actual purchase percentages with sourcing percentage.

The Expenditure is the sum of the item line amounts for standard purchase orders for

the supplier.

The Actual Percentage is the items expenditure as a percentage of the total expenditure

for the date range of the report.

The Intended Commitment is the total expenditure multiplied by the split percentage

entered in the sourcing rules.

* Analyze Requisitions

Requisition Activity Register

The Requisition Activity Register shows requisition activity and monetary values.

Purchasing prints the requisitions in order of creation date and prepared name.

* Review Quotation, RFQ and Purchase Order Statuses

Purchase Order Statuses may optionally be reviewed early in the period close

processing for Oracle Purchasing.

Blanket and Planned PO Status Report

The Blanket and Planned PO Status Report can be used to review purchase order

transactions for items you buy, using blanket purchase agreements and planned

purchase orders. For each blanket purchase agreement and planned purchase order

created, Purchasing provides the detail of the releases created against these orders.

Purchasing prints the blanket agreement or planned purchase order header information,

if no release exists.

* Savings Analysis Reports

a) Savings Analysis Report (by Category)

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The Savings Analysis Report (By Category) shows buyer performance by category.

Use the report to compare the market, quote, or list price to the actual price.

The Negotiated Amount is the product of the price on the quotation and the quantity

ordered. If a quote is not defined, Purchasing prints the product of the market price of

the item ordered and the quantity ordered. If the market price is not defined,

Purchasing uses the list price.

The report includes a price type Legend at the bottom of each page for the price type.

If the line price type is Q, the line price was from the Quote. If the line price type is M,

the line price was from the Market Price, and if the line price type is L, the line price

was from the List Price.

The Actual Amount is the product of the actual price listed on the purchase order line

and the quantity ordered.

The Amount Saved is the negotiated amount less the actual amount, with negative

figures in parentheses.

b) Savings Analysis Report (by Buyer)

The Savings Analysis Report (By Buyer) shows buyer performance by purchase order.

The Negotiated Amount is the product of the price on the quotation and the quantity

ordered. If a quote is not defined, Purchasing prints the product of the market price of

the item ordered and the quantity ordered. If the market price is not defined,

Purchasing uses the list price.

The report includes a price type Legend at the bottom of each page for the price type.

If the line price type is Q, the line price was from the Quote. If the line price type is M,

the line price was from the Market Price, and if the line price type is L, the line price

was from the List Price.

The Actual Amount is the product of the actual price listed on the purchase order line

and the quantity ordered.

The Amount Saved is the negotiated amount less the actual amount, with negative

figures in parentheses.

* Encumbrance Accounting Reports

Encumbrance Detail Report

The Encumbrance Detail Report can be used to review requisition and purchase order

encumbrances for a range of accounts if the encumbrance option for requisitions or

purchase orders has been enabled, and there are entered and approved requisitions and

purchases. Use this report to review the encumbered accounts.

* Cancellation Reports

Use these reports to review all cancelled purchase orders and requisitions, particularly

where you have defined multiple Mass Cancel batches:

a) Cancelled Purchase Orders Report

b) Cancelled Requisitions Report

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Chapter 8 Oracle Inventory-Cost Management

This chapter describes the procedures for performing period-end processing in Oracle

Inventory Release 12.

Note: Since Release 12, Cost Management becomes an application module holding

Inventory/Receiving/WIP accounting entries.

Business Requirements

The period close process for Oracle Inventory enables the summarizing of costs related

to inventory and manufacturing for a given accounting period. These costs are then

transferred to the General Ledger for posting.

Oracle Inventory and Oracle Cost Management provide the required features to affect

the necessary period-end procedures to:

Reconcile the inventory and work in process costs and values.

Transfer inventory and manufacturing costs to the General Ledger.

Transfer summary or detail accounting information to the General Ledger.

Independently open and close periods for each inventory organization.

Perform interim transfers to the General Ledger without closing the period.

Attention: Usually, logistic and manufacturing systems need to be always open

for worker transactions, which means at month end the next period is opened to

allow key-in from the first day, and then the closure process is processed for the

past month. To avoid date entry error (when both periods are open) there is a

profile option „INV: Transaction date validation‟.

Attention: For environments with a large number of organizations, you can

open / close many logistic organizations by batch program: “OPSR and CPSR

open period status report”, “close period status report”.

Procedures

The following steps are taken in performing period-end processing for Oracle

Inventory:

1. Complete All Transactions for the Period Being Closed

Ensure that all issues, shipping, receipts, and adjustments have been entered and verify

that no hard copy records exist, or are awaiting data entry (e.g. packing slips in

receiving).

Optional - Cycle Count Pending Approval Report

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2. Check Inventory and Work in Process Transaction Interfaces

Check the Interface Managers window to ensure that there are no unprocessed

background or concurrent programs.

The interface managers that need to be run are as follows:

* Cost Manager (mandatory)

* Material Transaction Manager (Optional, depending on INV profile option “TP-

INV: Transaction Processing Mode”)

* Move Transaction Manager (for IWIP)

3. Check and fix pending Transactions

Check and fix any rejected transactions from the Inventory Accounting Period

Window: click on the pending button to display pending transactions. This will display

transactions under the following statuses:

* Resolution Required: Displays the number of unprocessed material transactions,

uncosted material transactions, and pending IWIP costing transactions existing in this

period. These must be resolved before the period is closed.

* Resolution Recommended: Displays the number of pending receiving transactions,

pending material transactions, and pending shop floor move transactions existing in

this period. Though the accounting period can be closed, once it is closed these

transactions cannot be processed in that period.

Attention: This process needs to be completed for each defined Inventory

Organization.

In case of error, correct the error at the source, and then relaunch transactions using:

* INV / Transactions / Pending transactions

* INV/ Transactions / Transaction Open interface

* OM / Shipping / Interfaces

This check should be done during the month to avoid cumulative problems at month

end before closing.

4. Transfer Summary or Detail Transactions

If Order Management is used, for the order-shipments which have been invoiced in

AR, revenue recognition has been processed in AR, and the accounting entries between

„Deferred COGS account‟ and „COGS account‟ must be generated in INV-CST. For

this purpose you need to run these 2 concurrent programs:

* “Collect Revenue Recognition information”

* “Generate COGS Recognition event”

Run the „Create Accounting-Cost Management‟ program up to the period end date

before closing the period. Since a period, once closed, cannot be re-opened, running

this process prior to closing the period facilitates validating the interface transactions.

Any adjustments to the period can be made via new inventory transactions as required.

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If the Create Accounting Program is run in Final Mode without transferring to GL then

run the „Transfer Journal Entries to GL Cost Management‟ which transfers the

accounting to GL.

Attention: The Transfer Journal Entries to GL Cost Management Program

transfers the accounting details for all the inventory organizations within a

Ledger.

Attention: If this step was by-passed, and the period was closed, a GL Transfer

would automatically be initiated. But no adjustments to that period can then be

entered, since transactions cannot be posted to a closed period, and a closed

period cannot be re-opened.

View accounting, journal entries associated with transactions, and accounting events

by accessing the Sub ledger Accounting user interface from the View Transactions

window and various statuses (e.g. Final Accounted, Draft Accounted, Errored can be

selected).

5. Open the Next Inventory Period

Prior the first day of data entry, open the next inventory period using the Inventory

Accounting Periods window.

Attention: This process needs to be completed for each defined Inventory

Organization.

6. Close the current Oracle Payables and Oracle Purchasing Periods

Complete all steps required to close Oracle Payables and Oracle Purchasing. Oracle

Payables is closed prior to closing Oracle Purchasing, to enable the running of

purchase accruals to accrue expenses on un-invoiced receipts.

If Oracle Purchasing or Oracle Inventory are closed, a receipt cannot be entered for

that period. However, as a manual procedure, Oracle Purchasing should be closed

before Oracle Inventory. This still allows miscellaneous transactions corrections in

inventory.

7. Close the Current Inventory Period

Closing the inventory period using the Inventory Accounting Periods window

automatically transfers summary transactions to the GL interface table.

Attention: This process needs to be completed for each defined Inventory

Organization.

As explained in step 3 above, prior to closing the inventory period, click on the pending

button to display any remaining pending transactions and make the appropriate

resolutions.

The period close performs the following:

* Closes the open period for Oracle Inventory and Oracle Work in Process.

* Creates summary or detail inventory accounting entries in the GL interface.

* Creates summary or detail work in process accounting entries in the GL interface.

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* Calculates period-end sub-inventory balances.

For each sub-inventory, the period close adds the net transaction value for the current

period to the previous period‟s ending value.

This, along with the values in transit creates the period-end value for the current

period. The period-end values by sub-inventory are reported in the Period Close

Summary Report.

The period close process automatically transfers all job costs and variances by GL

account. Discrete jobs and certain non-standard jobs are closed separately. Job close

performs the necessary accounting for each job, including variance calculations. For

expense non-standard jobs, the period close process writes off any remaining

balances and transfers any period costs to the General Ledger.

Warning: Closing an inventory period permanently closes the period and no

further transactions can be charged to that period.

8. Run Standard Period-End Reports and reconcile the Perpetual Inventory with

GL

Check that the perpetual inventory value up to the end of the period being closed

matches the value reported in the General Ledger. The balance normally matches with

the GL balance. But Journal entries from products other than Oracle Inventory, may

create discrepancies.

The following reports can be run to help with these reviews:

a) Period Close Value Summary Report.

Use the Period Close Value Summary Report to see summary balances for sub-

inventories. If you run this report for a closed accounting period, the report displays

the sub-inventory values at the end of that period. If you run the report for an open

period, the report displays the sub-inventory value at the point in time you run the

report.

b) Material Account Distribution Summary Report.

Use the Material Account Distribution Summary Report to verify inventory account

activity against inventory valuation increases or decreases for the accounting period.

Finally, use this report to reconcile an account across several periods. If you detect

unusual accounts or amounts, use the Material Account Distribution Detail Report to

print the transactions in detail.

Additional useful reports:

a) Inventory Value Report

You can see more sub-inventory balance details by running the Inventory Value

Report, or the Elemental Inventory Value Report. These show quantity, valuation, and

detailed item information for the sub-inventories specified. (Warning : these reports

show the value at the point in time you run the report).

b) Material Account Distribution Detail Report

Use the Material Account Distribution Detail Report to view the accounts charged for

inventory transactions. Review inventory transaction values transferred to the General

Ledger by GL batch.

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9. Validate the Work in Process Inventory

If Oracle Work in Process is installed, check the work in process inventory balances

against transactions with the WIP Account Distribution Report, by summary or detail.

The WIP Account Distribution Report lists detailed account information for work in

process cost transactions, including resource, overhead and outside processing charges,

cost updates, and period close and job close variances. The system groups the

transactions by job or schedule, by transaction type, and orders the transactions by

earliest transaction date. Detailed account information is available for specific

accounts, GL batches, or both to help reconcile the General Ledger.

This report does not list material cost transactions such as issues, completions, and

scrap. This information can be found using the Material Account Distribution reports

in Oracle Inventory.

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Chapter 9 Oracle Assets

This chapter describes the procedures for performing period-end processing in Oracle

Assets Release 12.

Business Requirements

At period end, run depreciation for each asset book set up for the enterprise.

Accounting can be created for Fixed Assets (FA) transactions and sent to GL on a

continual basis throughout the period using the Create Accounting program after the

introduction of SLA. Oracle Assets has only a single open depreciation period in each

asset book.

Procedures

The following steps are taken in performing period-end processing for Oracle Assets.

1. Complete All Transactions for the Period Being Closed

Ensure that all transactions have been entered for the period being closed.

Once a depreciation period in Oracle Assets has been closed, it cannot be re-opened.

Check that transactions are not being entered as Oracle Assets prevents transaction

data entry while the Depreciation Run Process is running.

Completing all transactions for Oracle Assets:

* Prepare and Post Mass Additions

* Complete Manual Additions

* Complete Adjustments

* Complete Retirements

* Complete Transfers

* Complete Reinstatements

2. Assign All Assets to Distribution Lines

If an asset has not been assigned to a distribution line, the period end Depreciation

Process will not complete, and will not close the period. Determine which assets have

not been assigned to a distribution line by running the following report:

Assets Not Assigned to Any Cost Centers Listing

3. Run Calculate Gains and Losses (Optional)

The Calculate Gains and Losses program for retirements can be submitted prior to

running depreciation. The Calculate Gains and Losses process is performed

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independently for each depreciation book. The book and depreciation period are

nominated on the Submit Request window.

For books with a large volume of assets, the retirements process can be run several

times during the period to reduce the time for the depreciation process.

Alternatively, the Calculate Gains and Losses program will be submitted as part of the

Run Depreciation Process.

4. Run Depreciation

When you Run Depreciation, Oracle Assets gives you the option of closing the current

period if you check the Close Period check box on the „Run Depreciation‟ window. If

all of your assets depreciate successfully, Oracle Assets automatically closes the

period and opens the next period for the book. If you do not check the Close Period

check box when you run depreciation, Oracle Assets does not close the period.

Note: Depreciation will be rolled back automatically if any activity is performed on a

depreciated transaction. This is valid only if the period is not closed.

Attention: Ensure that you have entered all transactions for the period before

you run depreciation. Once the program closes the period, you cannot reopen it.

The Run Depreciation process is performed independently for each asset book. The

asset book and depreciation period are nominated on the Run Depreciation window.

When the process is run, Oracle Assets automatically calculates depreciation for all

assets, calculates gains and losses for all retirements, and then runs the appropriate

Reserve Ledger Report.

If an asset has not been assigned to a distribution line, the Run Depreciation process

will end with an error status. By using the depreciation log file, you can determine

which assets were unassigned, or you can review the Depreciation Program Report via

the Requests window. The unassigned assets can then be assigned to distribution lines

and the Depreciation process resubmitted. The Depreciation process only processes

assets that have not already been processed.

The Run Depreciation process will close the current depreciation period and open the

next only if the Close Period checkbox is selected.

This process submits concurrent requests to run the calculate gains and losses,

depreciation, and reporting programs off-line.

When the depreciation program is run for an Asset Corporate Book, the Journal Entry

Reserve Ledger Report will be generated. However, if the depreciation program is run

for a Tax book, then the Tax Reserve Ledger Report is generated. Both Reserve

Ledger Reports can also be run at any time, using the Submit Requests window.

5. Create Accounting

Submit the Create Accounting process from SRS screen. This process generates

accounting and also enables transfer to and posting in GL. This program can be run in

3 modes: Draft, Final and Final Post. This program replaces the „Create Journal

Entries‟ in Oracle Assets. If the program is run in FINAL mode with POST as yes,

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then the entries will be automatically posted to the General Ledger. If the program is

run in FINAL mode with „Transfer to General Ledger‟ as NO, then run Transfer

Journal Entries to GL – Assets later on. For more details, please refer to the Oracle

Assets User Guide.

The depreciation expense journal entries can be created from an Asset Corporate or an

Asset Tax book and transferred to the General Ledger.

There is no need to run Depreciation before creating accounting transactions. You can

run the Create Accounting process as many times as necessary within a period.

This program creates adjusting journal entries to depreciation expense, bonus expense,

accumulated depreciation accounts, and bonus reserve accounts when you enter prior

period additions, transfers, or retirements.

Warning: Journal entries cannot be created from asset budgeting books.

Journal entries can be created for any period in the current fiscal year for which

journal entries have not already been created. The GL period for which journal entries

are to be created must be open.

Oracle Assets uses the „FA: Use Workflow Account Generation‟ to make a decision on

whether to use the workflow or not. By default, on upgrade this profile option is set to

„Yes‟. If the profile is set to „No‟, create accounting will create accounting based on its

rules and the workflow will not be used.

Attention: If in 11i the FA Account Generator Workflow was customized, the

customizations will have to be re-implemented using SLA or FA: Use Workflow

Account Generation should be set as YES. In the second case workflow will be

used to generate accounts.

Attention: „Create Journal Entries‟ program has now been replaced by „Create

Accounting‟ program.

6. Rollback Depreciation

There is no separate program as in Release 11i to perform the rollback. Any alteration

on a depreciated asset will result in an automatic rollback.

Note: Rollback happens at Asset Level in Release 12, unlike at Asset Book level as in

Release 11i.

7. Create Deferred Depreciation Journal Entries (Optional)

Deferred depreciation is the difference in depreciation expense taken for an asset

between a tax book and its associated corporate book. This difference results from the

use of accelerated depreciation methods in the tax book.

Create deferred journal entries using the SLA Create Accounting Process, based on

rules and in-built event class/entity model processes for deferred depreciation. For

more information, please refer to the Oracle Assets User Guide.

8. Depreciation Projections (Optional)

You can project depreciation expense for any number of future periods, on as many as

five depreciation books at once. Results can be summarized by year, quarter, month, or

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any specified interval. The results can be summarized also by cost centre or

depreciation expense account.

9. Review and Post Journal Entries

If accounting was performed without the journal entries being posted, review the

unposted journal entries in the Enter Journals window, in Oracle General Ledger. Post

each journal entry batch using the Post Journals window in Oracle General Ledger to

update the account balances.

Optionally, use the More Actions button to Post each Journal individually or if the

source of Assets has been included in the Auto Post options, the Assets Journals will

be posted automatically in the next scheduled posting run.

10. Reconcile Oracle Assets to the General Ledger Using Reports

* Reserve Ledger Reports

a) Journal Entry Reserve Ledger –

Reconcile with the Account Analysis with Payables Details Report.

b) Tax Reserve Ledger Report

Additionally, the Account Reconciliation Reserve Ledger Report can be run.

* Balances Reports

a) Cost Detail and Cost Summary Reports

b) CIP Detail and CIP Summary Reports

c) Reserve Detail and Reserve Summary Reports

d) Revaluation Reserve Detail and Revaluation Reserve Summary Reports

e) Account Analysis Report

* Transaction Reports

a) Asset Additions Report

b) Cost Adjustments Report

c) Asset Reclassification Report

d) Asset Transfers Report

e) Asset Retirements Report

f) Reinstated Assets Report

g) Cost Clearing Reconciliation Report

* Drill Down Reports

a) Drill Down Report–

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Reconcile the batch totals from this report with those of the General Journals Report in

Oracle General Ledger run for posting status = „Unposted’.

b) Account Drill Down Report–

Reconcile journal entries to the General Ledger. The report enables detailed review of

the account activity on a specific general ledger account. The report gives detailed

information of the asset transactions represents by a journal entry line.

Note: Drilldown is a two-stage process. In the first stage drilldown happens from GL

to SLA. From SLA drilldown can be performed to transaction level.

* General Ledger Reports

a) Unposted Journals Report–

Run- run the General Journals Report for Posting Status = Unposted to reconcile with

the Drill Down reports.

b) Posted Journals Report–

Run- run the General Journals Report for Posting Status = Posted.

c) Account Analysis Report with Payables Detail –

The ending balance of this report reconciles with the Reserve Summary Report ending

balance.

d) Financial Statements Generator –

It is recommended that you create a detailed Financial Statement Generator (FSG) for

all asset accounts. This can be done at cost centre level for direct comparison with the

Asset Cost Summary and Reserve Summary reports.

11. Run Responsibility Reports (Optional)

It is also important to ensure that your asset inventory is accurate. If the asset

inventory is inaccurate, then your financial statements will also be inaccurate. The

following reports can be reviewed when assessing the accuracy of the asset inventory:

* Asset Additions By Cost Centre Report

* Asset Additions Responsibility Report

* Asset Disposals Responsibility Report

* Asset Inventory Report

* Asset Retirements by Cost Centre Report

* Responsibility Reserve Ledger Report

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Chapter 10 Oracle Treasury

This chapter describes the procedures for performing period-end processing in Oracle

Treasury Release 12.

Business Requirements

Oracle Treasury is a comprehensive treasury solution that helps you effectively

manage your investments, debt, foreign exchange transactions and derivatives.

Once your financial transactions are captured in the system, manually or

automatically, Oracle Treasury facilitates settlement, valuation, accrual and

accounting for these transactions.

Procedures

The following steps are taken in performing period-end processing for Oracle

Treasury. You can automate steps 2-5 by running the Accounting Streamline Process

concurrent program.

1. Complete Daily Trading Activities

Complete trading activities for the day, validate them, if necessary, and send payment

instructions to the bank.

2. Perform Revaluation

Revaluation is the process of adjusting the rates and prices of your financial

instruments to reflect the current market value and calculate the realized or unrealized

profit and loss.

Revaluation is an optional step in the accounting process. If you set the „Accounting -

Perform Deal Revaluations company parameter‟ to Yes, you must perform

revaluations as part of the accounting process.

3. Generate Accruals and Amortization

You can generate amortizations and accruals adjustments, split by revenue and

expense, for all money market products. These adjustments include amounts for

settling derivatives, such as Forward Rate Agreements (FRAs) and options.

Amortization and accruals adjustments are calculated incrementally for each batch

period, rather than as an accumulating amount for multiple periods. Reversal entries

are not required.

* Navigate to the Accruals window.

* Choose a Company.

* Choose a period or an existing Batch ID.

* Choose the Calculate button.

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* The accrual and amortization details for the financial transactions in the specified

period appear.

You can view and delete these period adjustments, but you cannot change them. If you

find the results to be incorrect, delete them and review the corresponding financial

instrument. Once the financial instrument is correct, re-create the accruals.

* Authorize the results.

4. Generate Journals

Use the Daily Journals window to generate the daily journals for an accounting batch,

view the generated journal entries, change the dates or GL accounts for your journal

entries, and reallocate suspense journal entries to a GL account.

5. Transfer Journals to General Ledger

After you enter and verify all accounting changes for the journal, use the Transfer

Journals to GL window to transfer your journals from Treasury to General Ledger.

Once you transfer your daily journals to General Ledger, you cannot change any of the

accounting for the batch in Treasury.

Attention: There is no integration yet with SubLedger Accounting (SLA).

Treasury sends the journals directly to GL and not via SLA.

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Chapter 11 Oracle General Ledger

This chapter describes the procedures for performing period-end processing in Oracle

General Ledger Release 12.

Note: The Period-End and Year-End processes are the same if Encumbrances are Not

Used. Special steps are required for Encumbrances.

Business Requirements

Period End Close

In Oracle General Ledger, an accounting period is closed after all the accounting

transactions have been completed for the period. A closed period can be re-opened

(provided it has not been permanently closed), if it is necessary to enter or modify

accounting transactions for that period.

For most modules you can view and select one of the following:

* Never Opened - The period has never been used.

* Future Enterable - The period is open to accept transactions from other modules.

Usually used where modules are maintained in different periods, and transactions are

likely to be posted across modules.

* Open - Period is available for data entry

* Closed - Period is closed for processing, but can re re-opened if required.

* Permanently Closed - No further processing is possible.

Managers have the discretion to immediately close a period to prevent unauthorized

processing, but be able to re-open periods for post processing adjustments. The

periods can then be permanently closed as required, independent of the period/year end

process.

Suggestion: Periods are usually only „finally closed‟ when all adjustments and

reporting requirements for the prior financial year are finalized.

Combined Basis Accounting

If you have installed combined basis accounting, then the steps detailed below will

need to be completed for both your accrual and cash Ledgers. This will mean that you

will need to select the responsibility relevant to both Ledgers when completing these

tasks. Depending on the Ledger set/Data Access Set attached to a responsibility, these

tasks could be performed from a single responsibility.

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Procedures

The following steps are taken in performing period-end processing for Oracle General

Ledger.

1. Ensure the Next Accounting Period Status is set to Future Entry

Set the status of the next accounting period to „Future Entry‟ if it is not already, except

at year-end.

At year-end, it is recommended that you complete all period end processing, prior to

opening the first period of the new financial year.

Maintain period-end exchange rates for all foreign currencies to which you want to

translate.

2. Complete Oracle Sub-ledger Interfaces to Oracle General Ledger

Journals are created to load accounting information into Oracle General Ledger.

Journals are comprised of batch level, journal entry level, and journal entry line level,

information.

Ensure that the accounting information from the sub-ledgers (Oracle Payables,

Purchasing, Inventory, Order Management, Receivables, Cash Management,

Assets, Treasury and Projects) have been transferred to Oracle General Ledger.

Run Create Accounting program or the appropriate program (based on previous

runs of Create Accounting) to transfer data from subledgers, into Oracle General

Ledger. The Create Accounting process of SLA submits Journal Import Process

(based on appropriate parameters as discussed in previous sections). This process

populates the GL_JE_BATCHES, GL_JE_HEADERS, and GL_JE_LINES

tables, and is run automatically.

Attention: The journal posting process, run in Oracle General Ledger, updates

the GL_BALANCES table.

Journal Import:

* If not automatically completed, review the Journal Import Execution Report to

identify which journal entry batches were not successfully imported.

* Delete any error journal entry batches. Determine the source(s) for these error

batches, and retrieve the run ID from the Journal Import Execution Report.

* Make the necessary corrections - in the GL_INTERFACE table, via the Correct

Journal Import Data window.

* Re-import these corrected journal entry batches from the GL_INTERFACE table.

Simply re-enter the source from which journal entry batches are to be imported.

Note: If journal import fails when importing from the sub ledger modules, data will be

rolled back to SLA tables, so that there would not be any data left in the

GL_INTERFACE table, when the profile option „SLA:Disable Journal Import‟ is set

to „No‟.

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Attention: Leave sufficient time to re-import any journal entries not

successfully imported from the feeder systems. Then update and post them.

3. Upload Journals from Web Applications Desktop Integrator (Web ADI) to

Oracle General Ledger (Optional)

Journal information can also be imported from spreadsheets into Oracle General

Ledger using Web ADI.

4. Complete Non-Oracle Sub-ledger Interfaces to Oracle General Ledger

(Optional: only required if you want to post from non-Oracle systems)

Following the same procedures as for Step 2:

* Ensure that the accounting information from any site specific, non-Oracle sub-

ledgers has been transferred to Oracle General Ledger.

* Run the Journal Import process for these sources and ensure the resulting Journal

Entries are posted either automatically by AutoPost or manually.

Note: If you are loading accounting journals for 3rd party systems directly to Oracle

General Ledger, use the GL_Interface.

If you are using Oracle Financials Accounting Hub to generate accounting for your 3rd

party systems, the accounting journal details will automatically by stored in the XLA

tables, prior to being transferred (in summary or detail) and imported into Oracle

General Ledger.

5. Generate Reversal Journals (Optional)

Select all the Journals to be reversed. Submit the process to generate the Reversal

Journals. This process can be run across ledgers.

6. Generate Recurring Journals (Optional)

Select all the Recurring Journals that require generation for the current period. Submit

the process to generate the Recurring Journals. This process can be submitted for

foreign currency and for multiple ledgers, provided the access is available.

7. Generate Mass Allocation Journals (Optional)

Select the Mass Allocation Journals that require generation for the current period.

Ensure that all entries to the source accounting flexfields used in the MassAllocation

Journal definitions are finalized for the current period, prior to generating the journal.

Post step-down allocations in the correct order (i.e. perform the calculation and post,

for each successive level of allocation entry). This process can be run across ledgers

and across currencies.

8. Review and Verify Journal Details of Unposted Journal Entries

Review any remaining unposted journal entries for the current period.

Update journal entries as appropriate.

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Attention: Journal entries can be reviewed on-line, or via reports. Reviewing

journal entries prior to posting minimizes the number of corrections and changes

after posting. Following review of journal entry batches, perform any journal

entry updates, including any adjusting entries, before posting.

Standard Journal reports available included:

a) Journal Batch Summary Report

b) Journals - General Report

c) Journals - Entry Report

d) Journals - Line Report

e) Tax Journals Report

f) General Ledger - Entered Currency

g) Journals by Document Number Report (when document sequencing is used)

9. Post All Journal Batches

Post all journal entries for the current period, including reversal, recurring and

allocation journals.

Review the results of the post:

* The Posting Execution Report facilitates review of the results of journal entry

posting. Oracle General Ledger generates this report every time posting of journal

entry batches occurs. This report indicates any errors in journal entries or journal entry

lines were discovered during the posting process.

* Run the Journals - General Report with a Posting Status of Error Journals to review

error journal entry batches and their journal entries.

Update unpostable journal entries.

Locate the problems with unpostable journal entry batches using the following

information:

a) Control Total

When using a control total, ensure that the debits and credits equal the control total.

b) Period Status

Post Actual batches to open periods.

Post Budget batches to any period in an open budget year.

Post Encumbrance batches to any period up to the last period in the latest open

encumbrance year.

c) Batch Status

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Oracle General Ledger describes the problems with unpostable batches.

Common reasons for unpostable batches are:

* Control total violations

* Posting to unopened periods

* Unbalanced journal entries

Attention: All errors in the journal entry batches must be fixed, and the

corrected journal entries re-submitted for posting.

Post updated journal entries.

9a. Run the Period Close Exceptions Report

This is a new step in Release 12. The General Ledger accounting can run the Period

Close Exceptions report to double check that there are no outstanding transactions in

the subledgers and GL, and ensure a follow-up with relevant colleagues if any

exceptions are identified.

10. Run GL Trial Balances and Preliminary Financial Statement Generator

Reports (FSGs)

To maintain a consistent audit trail, it is advisable to create a standard period-end

accounting report set that can be run at each period end.

Custom accounting reports can be created by using the „Financial Statement Generator

(FSG)‟.

Suggestion: To prevent confusing different versions of accounting reports for a

specific accounting period, discard any obsolete versions of your report for that

accounting period.

Request financial reports such as:

a) Balance Sheets e.g. Detail Trial Balance Report

b) Income Statements

c) Gross Margin Analysis

11. Revalue Balances (Optional)

Revalue account balances to update functional currency equivalents.

12. Translate Balances (Optional)

Define any new currencies to which accounting balances are to be translated.

Maintain period-end exchange rates for all foreign currencies to which you want to

translate.

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Maintain average exchange rates for all foreign currencies to which you want to

translate.

Maintain historical rates or amounts for any owner‟s equity accounts to be translated.

Translate account balances to any defined currency.

13. Consolidate Ledgers (Optional)

Attention: You can consolidate using Global Consolidation System, Financial

Consolidation Hub or the Hyperion Consolidation functionality. Whichever you

choose you can run your extract programs to extract the data from General

Ledger to the consolidation systems.

* Consolidate within ledgers

a) Enter consolidating journal entries

The following two methods can be used to create eliminating entries for multiple

companies using a single Ledger:

Automatic Eliminating Entries - define mapping rules to eliminated intercompany

receivables, payables, investments in subsidiaries, intercompany sales etc.

Recurring Journals- use formulas

b) Post consolidating journal entries.

c) Define a reporting hierarchy that consolidates all the companies.

d) Define financial statements with the reporting hierarchy.

Suggestion: To automatically generate the amounts and accounts for

consolidating and eliminating journal entries, use recurring journal entry

formulas.

Suggestion: To produce financial reports that reconcile your consolidating

companies with the consolidated totals, enter the consolidating entries to a

separate company, and build reports with a separate column for „consolidating

entries‟.

* Example of consolidation across ledgers when sharing same COA and Calendar

(Using Ledger Set and access granted via „Data Access Set‟):

a) Define consolidated FSG

b) Perform revaluation and translations across ledgers

c) Enter consolidated and eliminating entries

d) Report on FSG by selecting the ledger set option while running

* Example of consolidation across ledgers using the Global Consolidation System

(GCS):

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a) Define consolidations.

b) Perform revaluation and translation of foreign subsidiaries as required.

c) Run consolidations.

d) Enter consolidated and eliminating entries.

e) Report on this consolidated ledger using FSG‟s.

f) Analyze results using drill-down capability from Parent ledger to Subsidiary

ledger/s.

Attention: All errors in the journal entry batches must be fixed, and the

corrected journal entries re-submitted for posting.

13a. Reconcile Intercompany (optional)

Advanced Global Intercompany System in Release 12 provides more advanced features

such as automatic generation of intercompany invoices in AP and AR, improved online

reconciliation reporting, and is also fully integrated with SLA.

A new, online reconciliation report provides drill-down to underlying sources and

source journals for easy identification of reconciliation differences.

14. Review and Correct Balances (Perform Reconciliations)

Oracle General Ledger should be reconciled with all other modules. Adjust journals to

correct any errors in the journals. Create and post adjusting journals to correct errors

in account balances.

* Review Detail Account Balances On-line

* Review Account Balances via Reports

Request accounting reports such as general ledgers, general journals, trial balances,

and accounts analysis reports to facilitate reconciliation of Oracle General Ledger with

the other Financials and manufacturing modules.

a) General Ledger Reports

General Ledger Reports facilitate tracing back each transaction to the original source.

These reports list beginning and ending account balances and all journal entry lines

affecting each account balance. The report provides detailed information on each

journal entry line including source, category and date.

b) Accounts Analysis Reports

These reports list the accumulated balances of a range of Accounting Flexfields and all

journal entries that affect that range. Detailed information is provided for each journal

entry line, which includes the source, batch name, and description.

c) Trial Balance Reports

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Use trial balance reports to review account balances and activity in summary or detail.

d) Journal Reports

These reports print journal entry batches and include journal entry subtotals, and

descriptions and reference information for each journal entry line. You can report on

foreign currency, posted, unposted or error journal entries and report on a specific

batch or on journal entries from a specific source.

* Journal Reconciliation:

General Ledger Entry Reconciliation lets you reconcile transactions in GL accounts

that should balance to zero. With General Ledger Entry Reconciliation, you can

selectively cross-reference transactions in GL with each other by entering

reconciliation reference information at the journal line level. When the balance for

group of transactions is zero you can mark the transaction as reconciled.

* Clear Suspense Accounts

Examine the General Ledger and account analysis reports to identify the source of

entries to the suspense accounts.

Determine the adjusting entries required to net these accounts to zero.

Attention: If suspense accounting is not allowed, Oracle General Ledger will

not post out-of-balance batches.

* Reconcile Subsidiary Ledgers

Identify differences between subsidiary ledgers and the General Ledger.

Determine which differences are errors requiring adjustment to the General Ledger.

* Check other key system accounts have not been transacted by ad-hoc journals, for

example, Creditors Control, Debtors Control, Intercompany accounts, etc.

15. Enter Adjustments and / or Accruals and Post

To correct errors in account balances made by posting incorrect journals, create and

post adjusting and reversing journals.

Attention: The details of posted journals cannot be changed, except to mark or

unmark for reversal. An incorrectly entered posted journal must be reversed to

back-out the accounting of the original posted journal.

Other journal entry adjustments, for example, write-offs (refer Accrual Write-Off

Report), and manual accruals can be entered into Oracle General Ledger at this point

also.

16. Perform Final Adjustments

Enter and Post any final adjustments as required by the organization.

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17. Close the Current Oracle General Ledger Period

Close the current GL accounting period in the Open and Close Periods window. The

period can be „soft closed‟, if later adjustments to the balances for that period may be

applicable, or „permanently closed‟, which means that the period cannot be re-opened

in the future.

This step will need to be repeated for each ledger unless a data access set is setup to

give access to multiple ledgers. This is controlled by GL: Data Access Set profile

option. With a data access set across ledgers programs can be run for multiple ledgers

from a single responsibility. For more information please refer to Oracle General

Ledger User guide.

18. Open the Next Oracle General Ledger Period

Open the next General Ledger accounting period in the Open and Close Periods

window. This operation can be performed across ledgers provided „Data Access Set‟

grants access.

Choose status „Open‟ to open a new accounting period, or to re-open a previously soft

closed period to enable adjustments to be made.

Generate and post reversal journals that were entered in the prior period. For example

any Oracle Purchasing receipted accruals and manual accruals.

This step will need to be repeated for each ledger unless a data access set is setup to

give access to multiple ledgers. Any Journals entered into this period while it had a

status of Future Enterable, can now be posted as the period now has a status of Open.

This is controlled by GL: Data Access Set profile option. With a data access set across

ledgers programs can be run for multiple ledgers from a single responsibility.

19. Run Financial Reports for the Closed Period

Run a final Trial Balance Report.

Run final Financial Statement Generator Reports (FSG) or Report Sets as required by

the organization including Income Statements and Balance Sheets. FSGs can also be

published via the Application Desktop Integrator (ADI).

20. Run Reports for Tax Reporting Purposes (Optional)

A variety of standard reports can be used to provide tax information, which is required

to be reported to the relevant Tax Authority, including withholding tax.

The Financial Tax Register can be used to view the output from the Tax Reporting

Ledger using Reports Exchange and Application Desktop Integrator (ADI). Using

these products you can change the layout of the report, publish the report in different

formats, and export the data to a tab delimited or HTML file.

The Tax Reporting Ledger consists of accounting information created in Oracle

Receivables, Oracle Payables, and Oracle General Ledger. The Financial Tax Register

uses this data to generate Tax Register reports using the Rxi reporting tool.

The following tax registers are available:

a) Deferred Output Tax Register

b) Recoverable and Non-Recoverable Tax Registers

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c) Single Cross Product Tax Register

d) Standard Input and Output Tax Registers

21. Perform Encumbrance Year End Procedures (Optional)

Oracle Financials provides a number of facilities for the processing of outstanding

encumbrances as part of year-end processing.

The default processing for Oracle Financials at year end is to extinguish any

outstanding encumbrances/ unused funds when you close the last period of the

Financial Year within the General Ledger application.

The carry forward process enables managers to perform any of the following:

* Carry forward encumbrances for existing transactions (purchases/requisitions).

* Carry forward encumbrances, and the encumbered budget.

* Carry forward the funds available as at the end of the year.

Other facilities available:

* Use mass allocations to bring forward part of the funds available.

* Carry forward budgets into the current appropriation budget, or to a separate budget

to identify between current year and carry forward amounts if required. Mass budget

processing also allows you to combine these budgets.

To perform Encumbrance year-end procedures, including Carry Forward, you must

complete each of the following steps:

a) Open the next encumbrance year

Use the Open and Close Periods window to open the next encumbrance year.

b) Open the next budget year

Use the Define Budget window to define a budget for the next budget period.

Attention: Ensure that the budget that you use is inclusive of the periods for

the next budget year that you require

Attention: Ensure that the calendar periods for the next budget year have been

created prior to running this step.

Verify that the next year budget figures have been entered. If you define a new budget

for the purposes of the next year budgetary control, you may also need to update the

following:

Define Budget Organizations, where you have attached the funding budget to defined

account ranges within this form.

Define Summary Accounts, where summary templates are used as the basis for the

budgetary control procedures.

c) Run Year End Carry Forward

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This process enables you to determine the criteria that you want to use for carrying

forward your encumbrances

The year-end carry forward is normally completed in two steps:

1) Perform the Year End Carry Forward in Preview mode

2) Perform the Year End Carry Forward without selecting the Preview option

Within the Year End Carry Forward form, you can select a wide range of criteria for

carrying forward balances:

* Carry Forward Rule - This rule enables you to select Encumbrances Only,

Encumbrances and the Encumbered Budget, or Funds Available as the basis for the

Carry forward

* Encumbrance Type - Select „All‟ for all encumbrances, or select the encumbrance

type that you require i.e. Commitment, Obligation etc.

* From/To Budget and Budget Organization- Select the budgets where they are

different

* Accounting Flexfield Ranges - Select the range of relevant accounting flexfields to be

carried forward.

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Chapter 12 Period End Processing - Summary

The following table displays a summary of the period-end procedures for each of the Financials applications detailed in the preceding chapters

and, an indication of the order in which the steps should be undertaken.

Projects

(Chapter 5)

Order

Management

(Chapter 2)

Cash

Management

(Chapter 3)

Payables

(Chapter 4)

Receivables

(Chapter 6)

Purchasing

(Chapter 7)

Inventory / Cost

Management

(Chapter 8)

Assets

(Chapter 9)

Treasury

(Chapter 10)

General Ledger

(Chapter 11)

1. Complete All

Transactions for the

Period Being Closed

1. Complete Daily

Cash Management

Activities

1. Complete All

Transactions for the

Period Being Closed

1. Complete All

Transactions for the

Period Being Closed

1. Complete All

Transactions for the

Period Being Closed.

1. Complete Daily

Trading Activities

1. Ensure the Next

Accounting Period

Status is Set to Future

Entry

2. Run the Payables

Approval Process for

All Invoices

2. Review the Current

and Future

Commitments

(Optional)

2. Check Inventory

and Work In Process

Transaction

Interfaces.

2. Perform

Revaluation

2. Ensure all

Interfaces are

Completed for the

Period (Optional)

3. Review & Resolve

Amounts to Post to

the General Ledger

3. Review the

Outstanding and

Overdue Purchase

Orders (Optional)

3. Check and fix

pending Transactions.

3. Generate Accruals

and Amortization

3. Review Open

Orders and Check the

Workflow Status

4. Reconcile

Payments to Bank

Statement Activity for

the Period

4. Follow up Receipts-

Check with Suppliers

4. Generate Journals

4. Review Held

Orders

5. Transfer All

Approved Invoices

and Payments, to the

General Ledger

5. Identify and

Review Un-invoiced

Receipts (Period-End

Accruals)

5. Transfer Journals to

General Ledger

5.Review Customer

Acceptances

(Optional)

6. Review the

Payables to General

Ledger Posting

Process After

Completion

6. Follow Up

Outstanding Invoices

6.Review Discounts 7. Submit the

Unaccounted

Transactions Sweep

Program

7. Complete the

Oracle Payables

Period End Process

7.Review Back

Orders

8. Close the Current

Oracle Payables

Period

1. Change the Current

Oracle Projects Period

Status from Open to

Pending Close

8.Review and Correct

Order Exceptions

2. Open the Next

Oracle Projects Period

3. Complete All

Maintenance

Activities

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Projects

(Chapter 5)

Order

Management

(Chapter 2)

Cash

Management

(Chapter 3)

Payables

(Chapter 4)

Receivables

(Chapter 6)

Purchasing

(Chapter 7)

Inventory / Cost

Management

(Chapter 8)

Assets

(Chapter 9)

Treasury

(Chapter 10)

General Ledger

(Chapter 11)

4. Run Maintenance

Processes

5. Complete All

Transactions for the

Period Being Closed

6. Run the Cost

Distribution Processes

2. Load Bank

Statements

6a.Run the Generate

Cost Accounting

Events Program

3. Generate Sweep

Transactions

7.Interface

Transactions to Other

Applications

4. Generate Bank

Statement Cash flows

8.Generate Draft

Revenue for All

Projects

5. Reconcile Bank

Statements

9.Review and Release

Revenue for All

Projects

6. Create

Miscellaneous

Transactions

10.Run Generation

Revenue Accounting

Events Process

6a. Complete Bank

Transfers

11.Run Create

Accounting

7. Review Auto-

Reconciliation

Execution Report

9. Accrue Un-invoiced

Receipts

8. Run Receipt

Accruals - Period End

Process

12.Generate Invoices 1. Complete All

Transactions for the

Period Being Closed

10. Reconcile Oracle

Payables Activity for

the Period

2. Reconcile

Transaction Activity

for the Period

4. Transfer Summary

or Detail Transactions

11. Run Mass

Additions Transfer to

Oracle Assets

3. Reconcile

Outstanding Customer

Balances

9. Reconcile Accounts

- Perpetual Accruals

1. Complete All

Transactions for the

Period Being Closed

9. Reconcile to

Inventory

4. Review the

Unapplied Receipts

Register

10. Perform Year End

Encumbrance

Processing. (Optional)

5. Open the Next

Inventory Period

2. Assign All Assets to

Distribution Lines

10. Create Service

Contracts (Optional)

5. Reconcile receipts. 11. Close the Current

Oracle Purchasing

Period.

6. Close the Current

Oracle Payables and

Oracle Purchasing

Periods

3. Run Calculate

Gains and Losses

(Optional)

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Projects

(Chapter 5)

Order

Management

(Chapter 2)

Cash

Management

(Chapter 3)

Payables

(Chapter 4)

Receivables

(Chapter 6)

Purchasing

(Chapter 7)

Inventory / Cost

Management

(Chapter 8)

Assets

(Chapter 9)

Treasury

(Chapter 10)

General Ledger

(Chapter 11)

11. Reconcile to

Oracle Receivables

(Optional)

6. Reconcile Receipts

to Bank Statement

Activity for the Period

7. Close the Current

Inventory Period

4. Run Depreciation

13.Transfer Invoices

to Oracle Receivables

12. Run Standard

Period End Reports

8. Resolve Exceptions

on the Auto

Reconciliation

Execution Report

12. Open the Next

Oracle Payables

Period

7. Post to the General

Ledger

12. Open the Next

Oracle Purchasing

Period.

5. Create Accounting

14.Run Period Close

Exceptions and

Tieback Reports

9. Run Bank

Statement Detail

Report

8. Reconcile the

General Ledger

Transfer Process

8. Run Standard

Period End Reports

and reconcile the

Perpetual Inventory

with GL

6. Rollback

Depreciation

15. Run Final Project

Costing and Revenue

Management Reports

10. Run Transactions

Available for

Reconciliation Report

9. Reconcile the

Journal Import

Process

13. Run Standard

Period End Reports

(Optional)

9. Validate the Work

in Process Inventory

7. Create Deferred

Depreciation Journal

Entries (Optional)

16.Change the

Current Oracle

Projects Period Status

from Pending Close to

Closed

11. Resolve Un-

reconciled Statement

Lines

10. Print Invoices 8. Depreciation

Projections (Optional)

17.Advance the PA

Reporting Period

(optional)

12. Post to General

Ledger

9. Review and Post

Journal Entries

18.Update Project

Summary Amounts

13. Run the GL

Reconciliation Report

10. Reconcile Oracle

Assets to Oracle

General Ledger Using

Reports.

19.Restore Access to

User Maintenance

Activities

14. Run the Account

Analysis Report for

the General Ledger

Cash Account

11. Run

Responsibility Reports

(Optional)

20. Reconcile Cost

Distribution Lines

with General Ledger

(Optional)

15. Review the

Account Analysis

Report

11. Close the Current

Oracle Receivables

Period

21. Permanently

Close the Oracle

Projects Period

(Optional)

16. Correct any

Invalid Entries to the

General Ledger Cash

Account (Optional)

12. Review the

Subledger Period

Close Exceptions

Report

2. Complete Oracle

Sub-ledger Interfaces

to Oracle General

Ledger

13. Third Party

Balances Report

3. Upload Journals

from ADI

(Applications Desktop

Integrator) to Oracle

General Ledger

(optional)

14. Reconcile Posted

Journal Entries

4. Complete Non-

Oracle Sub-ledger

Interfaces to Oracle

General Ledger

(Optional)

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Projects

(Chapter 5)

Order

Management

(Chapter 2)

Cash

Management

(Chapter 3)

Payables

(Chapter 4)

Receivables

(Chapter 6)

Purchasing

(Chapter 7)

Inventory / Cost

Management

(Chapter 8)

Assets

(Chapter 9)

Treasury

(Chapter 10)

General Ledger

(Chapter 11)

13. Run Reports for

Tax Reporting

Purposes (Optional)

15. Review the

Unposted Items

Report

5. Generate Reversal

Journals (Optional)

14. Run the Key

Indicators Report

(Optional)

16. Review Account

Analysis Report

6. Generate Recurring

Journals (Optional)

17. Open the Next

Oracle Receivables

Period

7. Generate Mass

Allocation Journals

(Optional)

18. Run Reports for

Tax Reporting

Purposes (Optional)

8. Review and Verify

Journal Details of

Unposted Journal

Entries

9. Post All Journal

Batches

9a. Run the Period

Close Exceptions

Report

10. Run GL Trial

Balances and

Preliminary Financial

Statement Generator

Reports (FSGs)

11. Revalue Balances

(Optional)

12. Translate

Balances (Optional)

13. Consolidate

Ledgers (Optional)

13a. Reconcile

Intercompany

(optional)

14. Review and

Correct Balances

(Perform

Reconciliations)

15. Enter Adjustments

and / or Accruals and

Post

16. Perform Final

Adjustments

17. Close the Current

Oracle General

Ledger Period

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Projects

(Chapter 5)

Order

Management

(Chapter 2)

Cash

Management

(Chapter 3)

Payables

(Chapter 4)

Receivables

(Chapter 6)

Purchasing

(Chapter 7)

Inventory / Cost

Management

(Chapter 8)

Assets

(Chapter 9)

Treasury

(Chapter 10)

General Ledger

(Chapter 11)

18. Open the Next

Oracle General

Ledger Period

19. Run Financial

Reports for the Closed

Period

20. Run Reports for

Tax Reporting

Purposes (Optional)

21. Perform

Encumbrance Year

End Procedures

(Optional)

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Appendix: More Information

Related My Oracle Support Information

The following My Oracle Support Information can be reviewed for additional

information on period end procedures.

Document Title Doc ID

AR: What are the recommended patches for AR-GL Posting,

Reconciliation and Data Integrity Issues?

749679.1

'FAQs' for Period Close and Unaccounted

Transactions topic in Oracle Payables

735522.1

GL_DATE Difference On R12.0.4 Reconciliation Reports

On Standard Cash Receipt.

751830.1

How To Diagnose And Reconcile R12 Inventory AP

Accrual Transactions Using Reconciliation Reports

728871.1

How To Diagnose Issues With Create Accounting Process

For Procure To Pay Cycle in R12

558421.1

Period Close Reconciliation Report Is Showing Unusual

Discrepancy

761502.1

R12 Accounting FAQ's 579836.1

R12 Accounting, GL Transfer, Period Close and Trial

Balance 'How To' documents

579373.1

R12 SLA: New R12 Payables Trial Balance -- aka Open

Account AP Balances Listing

604739.1

R12 Trial Balance FAQs 579631.1

R12 Troubleshooting Accounting Issues (in Payables) 732928.1

R12 Troubleshooting Period Close in Payables 437422.1

R12: Oracle Financials Year-End Close and Reconciliation

Resources

759002.1

R12: The Differences between the AP Trial Balance in R12

and 11i

743390.1

Release 12 Close Process & Reconciliation - 7:00 pm MDT

(Conf. Key: R12) November 19

740297.1

SLA: Troubleshooting the AP TO GL Reconciliation 605707.1

Subledger Accounting (SLA): FAQ for Support Engineers 436128.1

Useful Articles for R12 General Ledger Support Engineers 369993.1

What Is The Period Close Process For Oracle Assets In

Release 12?

557948.1

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Change Log

Jun 2009 Published White Paper

16-Aug-2010 Updated the column headings for the table in Chapter 12

Oracle Financials Release 12 Period End Procedures

June 2009

Author: Oracle Consulting

Contributing Authors and Reviewers: Suneel Bhaskar, Ramaswamy Krishnamurti, Murali Voora, Sarah Bowen,

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